The following is from the Canmore newspaper this AM:
"...Parks Canada is implementing a mandatory seasonal travel restriction on a 17-km section on the eastern end of the 48-km parkway – almost 20 years after it was first recommended as part the two-year, $2 million Banff Bow Valley Study in 1997.
Officials say the parkway will be gated from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., but all businesses and commercial accommodations remain open during the travel restriction, and are easily accessible by driving the Trans-Canada Highway and exiting at Castle Junction."
IT ( and I) should specify - the restriction is for the Bow River Parkway
and not the Icefields parkway.
!7 KM s, from the start of the Parkway would be approximately the Hillsdale slide hills. Access to Johnson Canyon is available by going on the Trans Canada Highway (#1) to the Castle Mountain Junction (#93) and coming back "east". The restriction lasts from March 1 June 25.
John
