The Canada route
Text and photos: Eckart Winkler, Bad Nauheim, http://www.eckart-winkler.de
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Vancouver - Vancouver Island - Inside Passage - Yellowhead Highway - Rocky Mountains - The National Parks Jasper, Banff, Yoho, Glacier and Mt.Revelstoke - Okanagan Valley - Vancouver

Short info

Return flight Frankfurt - Vancouver, the hotel in Vancouver and the rental car booked from Germany, everything else organized on site. Overnight in a tent, where this was possible and useful (rarely due to the autumn season), otherwise mostly in motels.

The map

The route <

Tag	Place, route	Activity	Distance
Day 1	Frankfurt - Vancouver	Flight, transfer
Day 2	Vancouver	Chinatown, Gastown, Harbour, Stanley Park etc.
Day 3	Vancouver	Grouse Mountain Trail, Gastown etc.
Day 4	Vancouver - Victoria	Ferry to Vancouver Island; Victoria: Harbour stroll	73 km
Day 5	Victoria - Little Qualicum Falls PP	Victoria: Chinatown, Yates Street, Thunderbird Park; Duncan; Chemainus; Little Qualicum Falls	180 km
Day 6	Little Qualicum Falls PP - Tofino	Cathedral Grove; Port Alberni; Ucluelet; Pacific Rim NP: Long Beach, South Beach Trail; Tofino	194 km
Day 7	Tofino - Elk Falls PP	Pacific Rim NP: Radar Hill, Schooner Beach Trail, Spruce Fringe Trail, Rainforest Trail; Elk Falls PP	292 km
Day 8	Elk Falls PP - Strathcona PP	Elk Falls; Strathcona PP: Hikes at Buttle Lake	140 km
Day 9	Strathcona PP - Port Hardy	Strathcona PP: Lady Falls; Gold River; Port Hardy	249 km
Day 10	Port Hardy - Prince Rupert	Ferry on the Inside Passage to Prince Rupert	12 km
Day 11	Prince Rupert - Hazelton	Prince Rupert: Harbour, Cow's Bay; Terrace: Heritage Park; South Hazelton	324 km
Day 12	Hazelton - Vanderhoof	Hazelton: Museum village Ksan, Old Hazelton, Kispiox; Smithers: Twin Falls Trail; Vanderhoof	414 km
Day 13	Vanderhoof - McBride	Prince George; McBride	330 km
Day 14	McBride - Jasper	Mount Robson PP: Rearguard Falls, Kinney Lake Trail, Overlander Falls Trail	183 km
Day 15	Jasper	The Whistlers Trail, Pyramid Lake, Patricia Lake, Lake Annette, Lake Edith, Old Fort Point	68 km
Day 16	Jasper	Maligne Valley: Maligne Canyon, Medicine Lake, Maligne Lake	105 km
Day 17	Jasper - Saskatchewan Crossing	Mount Edith Cavell; Icefields Parkway: Athabasca Falls, Columbia Icefield	192 km
Day 18	Saskatchewan Crossing - Lake Louise	Icefields Parkway: Mistaya Canyon, Peyto Lake; Lake Louise: Plain of the Six Glaciers Trail	97 km
Day 19	Lake Louise - Banff	Fairview Mountain Trail; Moraine Lake	103 km
Day 20	Banff	Banff: Bow Falls, Centennial Cave and Basin, Hoodoos, Vermillion Lakes, Tunnel Mountain	53 km
Day 21	Banff	Banff: Sulphur Mountain Trail, Upper Hot Springs	10 km
Day 22	Banff - Golden	Bow Valley Parkway: Silverton Falls; Yoho NP: Natural Bridge, Hoodoos Trail	171 km
Day 23	Golden - Revelstoke	Yoho NP: Wapta Falls; Glacier NP: Short hikes; Mt.Revelstoke NP: Short hikes	230 km
Day 24	Revelstoke - Kelowna	Mt.Revelstoke NP: Meadows in the Sky; Sicamous; Okanagan Lake; Kelowna	273 km
Day 25	Kelowna - Princeton	Old Cattle Valley Railway Trail; Osoyoos; Princeton	366 km
Day 26	Princeton - Hope	Manning PP: Lightning Lake Loop Trail, Three Falls Trail; Hope Slide; Hope	160 km
Day 27	Hope - Vancouver	Vancouver: Metro Town, Stanley Park	200 km
Day 28	Vancouver - Frankfurt	Flight back	1 km
total			4420 km

The distances are read directly from the speedometer, so include any detours and local trips. The abbreviation "NP" means "National Park", the abbreviation "PP" means "Provincial Park".

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