Hope, Canada Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Reputedly christened by prospectors with a grounding in Dante, HOPE – as in "Abandon all hope …" – is a pleasant mountain-ringed town that achieved a certain fame as the place wasted in spectacular fashion by Sylvester Stallone at the end of First Blood , the first Rambo movie. Despite the number of roads that converge here – the Trans-Canada, Hwy 3 and the Coquihalla – it remains a remarkably unspoilt stopover. In the past it was rivers, not roads, that accounted for the town's growth: the Fraser and two of its major tributaries, the Skagit and Coquihalla, meet at the … more »