It was the crowds. Banff has just 7,000 year-round residents but attracts 4.5 million visitors a year. Apart from ski season, late summer and fall are the best times to visit, but if your idea of ...

Come September, when the last of the summer crowds have returned to work and school, the Canadian Rockies begin their quiet transformation. The larch trees turn a brilliant gold, the air grows crisp, ...

Call it fate, or whatever, but some things seem meant to be. I was left feeling that way late this September after an unexpected and glorious hike in the Moraine Lake area of Banff National Park in ...