Banff, Canada Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

BANFF is the unquestioned capital of the Canadian Rockies, and with its intense summer buzz it can be a fun, bustling and likeable base – but if you've come to commune with nature, you'll want to leave as soon as possible. Although the town is quite small, it handles an immense amount of tourist traffic, much of it of the RV and mega-coach-tour variety. Anything up to 50,000 visitors daily flock here in high season, making this the largest and busiest urban focus of any national park anywhere in the world. Backpackers are abundant in summer, and the Japanese presence is also marked, with a huge number of … more »