Banff Highlights and Wildlife Small Group Tour with Gondola

Banff National Park

Your local guide tailors the itinerary for each tour. Every day, we connect with other tour operators and Banff locals to gather wildlife sightings, and factor in seasonal weather and bus tour schedules, so you get the most authentic experience of the day, without the crowds. The stops listed below are just some of what you'll see on this tour.

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Head up Mount Norquay, home to Banff's first ski resort, to one of our favourite viewpoints over the town of Banff and the mountains that surround it.

Duration: 15 minutes

Lake Minnewanka

Keep an eye out for bears, elk, bighorn sheep, deer, coyotes, foxes, and other wildlife as we travel deep into Banff National Park to the glacier-fed waters of Lake Minnewanka and Two Jack Lake.

Duration: 30 minutes

Hoodoos Trail

Take a short walk to one of Banff National Park's red chair spots, with sweeping views of the hoodoos and the Canadian Rockies as they stretch across the Bow Valley.

Duration: 20 minutes

Surprise Corner

Look up through the alpine forest on Tunnel Mountain to the Fairmont Banff Springs, the famous local hotel that looks like a castle in the sky.

Duration: 15 minutes

Bow Falls

Visit Bow Falls, the backdrop for a famous scene in the 1954 Marilyn Monroe film "River of No Return."

Duration: 15 minutes

Banff Gondola

Ride to the summit of Sulphur Mountain for sweeping 360° alpine views.

Duration: 1 hour