RV Across Canada Halifax-Vancouver
Hi, My first experience with RV travel South Island New Zealand. I'm planning RV across Canada begin from Halifax to Vancouver. Really need advises and tips to get my dream become reality. 1. How mu...
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Part III.
Head west into the Rockies and stay in Banff or nearby. Depending on your vehicle take side trips into Kananaskis, Johnson Canyon, Yoho, Sulphur Mountain, Lake Louise, Morraine Lake, Bow Lake, Peyto Lake, Columbia Icefields, Jasper, Maligne Lake, Mt. Robson. In fact it might be better to split this part of your trip between Banff & Jasper, there is so much to see. At least go as far as the Columbia Icefields!
If you end up in Jasper & have seen Mt. Robson, do not make you way to Vancouver via HWY 16 and HWY 5, as the map would indicate, but head back the same way as far as Lake Louise & then take Hwy 1 west. This way you have a choice to go through the Okanagan Valley, without backtracking, and Hwy 5 can be a bit tedious (many disagree with me on that) So by going 'MY' way you get to see the spiral railway tunnels in Kicking Horse Pass, and the mountain sheep around Golden. You also get to go through Rogers Pass and lots of Glaciers. You pass through Revelstoke a nice town. At Sicamous, you may notice a change in the Vegetation, its beginning to dry out, farther on depending which way you go, you will pass through some semi desert with annual rainfall about 20cm.
At Sicamous you have a choice of routes. You can either stay on Hwy 1 through Kamloops, Cache Creek, Thompson & Fraser Canyons to Hope, or Hwy 97 through The Okanagan Valley, Princeton and Hope. From Hope it is about 160K to Vancouver.
The Okanagan Valley is a fruit growing area full of vineyards, tourism and nice but busy towns. You can leave the OK Valley by a couple of different routes. Depends how much time you have left. The first about half way down the Valley is a 4 lane freeway all the way to Hope, but sparsely populated, only one small town on the way. Or you can go all the way to the bottom of the Valley, almost at the US border, and take the vey scenic but slower Hwy 3 to Hope.
The other route goes through the very dry part of BC. Thompson Canyon does a lot of white water rafting. At Lytton, Canada's hot spot, 45C, you can see the muddy Fraser & the clear Thompson meet. If the light is right it's a great sight. Farther down the Fraser Canyon you can take a cable car across the narrowest deepest fastest part of the river at Hells Gate!
At Hope you are 1-2 hours from Vancouver.
Head west into the Rockies and stay in Banff or nearby. Depending on your vehicle take side trips into Kananaskis, Johnson Canyon, Yoho, Sulphur Mountain, Lake Louise, Morraine Lake, Bow Lake, Peyto Lake, Columbia Icefields, Jasper, Maligne Lake, Mt. Robson. In fact it might be better to split this part of your trip between Banff & Jasper, there is so much to see. At least go as far as the Columbia Icefields!
If you end up in Jasper & have seen Mt. Robson, do not make you way to Vancouver via HWY 16 and HWY 5, as the map would indicate, but head back the same way as far as Lake Louise & then take Hwy 1 west. This way you have a choice to go through the Okanagan Valley, without backtracking, and Hwy 5 can be a bit tedious (many disagree with me on that) So by going 'MY' way you get to see the spiral railway tunnels in Kicking Horse Pass, and the mountain sheep around Golden. You also get to go through Rogers Pass and lots of Glaciers. You pass through Revelstoke a nice town. At Sicamous, you may notice a change in the Vegetation, its beginning to dry out, farther on depending which way you go, you will pass through some semi desert with annual rainfall about 20cm.
At Sicamous you have a choice of routes. You can either stay on Hwy 1 through Kamloops, Cache Creek, Thompson & Fraser Canyons to Hope, or Hwy 97 through The Okanagan Valley, Princeton and Hope. From Hope it is about 160K to Vancouver.
The Okanagan Valley is a fruit growing area full of vineyards, tourism and nice but busy towns. You can leave the OK Valley by a couple of different routes. Depends how much time you have left. The first about half way down the Valley is a 4 lane freeway all the way to Hope, but sparsely populated, only one small town on the way. Or you can go all the way to the bottom of the Valley, almost at the US border, and take the vey scenic but slower Hwy 3 to Hope.
The other route goes through the very dry part of BC. Thompson Canyon does a lot of white water rafting. At Lytton, Canada's hot spot, 45C, you can see the muddy Fraser & the clear Thompson meet. If the light is right it's a great sight. Farther down the Fraser Canyon you can take a cable car across the narrowest deepest fastest part of the river at Hells Gate!
At Hope you are 1-2 hours from Vancouver.
