Discover Banff Tours

About Discover Banff Tours | 6:30 PM - Johnston Canyon Evening Icewalk®

• Details

  Departs at 6:30 PM
  Duration of 2.5 hours
  Walking Distance: 2.2 km (1.4 miles)
  Elevation Gain: 65m (213 feet)

  The Johnston Canyon Evening Icewalk is all about heightening your senses, appreciating the darkness, the scents of the fresh pine forest and enjoying the silence of a night spent beneath the stars. At one point, the group turns out their lights and you’re immersed in the peaceful stillness of a winter night.

  Explore the lower canyon at night by headlamp. See the lower icefalls lit up by powerful uplights. Hot chocolate, maple cookies. Includes $15.00 souvenir headlamp.

  Light your way through this narrow, water-formed canyon as your small group follows our guide to the Canyon’s lower falls. The suspended catwalks, built into the limestone walls, make this an easy trip for everyone. Along the way, your guide will highlight unique features by powerful flashlight and pause for moments of darkness and quiet to foster an appreciation for spending time in the canyon at night.

  At our turn around point, your guide will illuminate the expanding ice that encases the rushing water and escort you through a natural tunnel onto the viewing platform, beside the cascading Lower Falls themselves. Warm up with hot chocolate and a maple cookie snack while you look around the Lower Falls, the turnaround point.

  The return journey is your opportunity to travel without your headlamp (should you wish!). You'll be amazed as to how quickly your eyes adjust to the darkness, enough for you to travel through the pine forest guided only by the ambient light of the moon and the stars above your head.

• Pick-up Instructions

  Bring a printout of this page and photo IDs to the Mount Royal Hotel Bus Parking area on the order arrival date.