luckyd wrote:
You should stop in Field.
There is a campground on the opposite side of the highway.
The train tunnels are great .....but.....there is a waterfall
that is higher than Niagara and you can walk right up to the base
of it.
The falls he is describing are Takakkaw Falls, about a 300 meter free fall, with boulders at the base that you can climb. It is spectacular and I would highly recommend the side trip off the Trans-Canada Highway to see it. However, there are some hairpin turns that won't take any big MH or long trailer, so the suggestion to get an RV spot in Field is a good one (we watched a tour bus back down one of the hairpins despite signs saying that long vehicles were prohibited).
And our favorite lunch on our entire trip to Alaska in 2013 was in West Kelowna at the Quail's Gate Winery. We had lunch on the terrace overlooking the vineyards, with a rose bush blooming at the end of each row. Down the hillside covered with vines was beautiful Lake Okanagan, the biggest of the glacial lakes filling the Okanagan Valley. Getting back to the Okanagan is now near the top of our bucket list!
The campgrounds in Banff Tunnel Mountain 2, Jasper Whistlers, and Lake Louise have 15/30A electricity, but no water or sewer hookups except at a very few sites. And there are no private RV parks in those national parks to use as an alternative to the national park campgrounds. So, if you want to stay in the parks and have full hookups, you will need to make reservations very early.
