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Banff Townsite: 129km (80 miles) W of Calgary

Banff is Canada's oldest national park, founded in 1885 as a modest 26 sq. km (10-sq.-mile) reserve by the country's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. The park is now 6,641 sq. km (2,590 sq. miles) of incredibly dramatic mountain landscape, glaciers, high morainal lakes, and rushing ... more from Frommer's