SCENIC EXCURSIONS 



British Columbia. Banff, on the eastern margin 

 of the Canadian Rockies, is the station for the 

 Canadian National Park, which covers 6000 acres. 

 (Hotel rates, $4.00 per day, American plan; bath 

 house at the Hot Sulphur Springs near the hotel.) 



About one hour's run west of Banff is the 

 Chateau, on the border of the beautiful Lake Louise, 

 one of the "Lakes in the Clouds." The Victoria 

 Glacier lies two miles from Lake Louise. 



The tourist may also visit Paradise Valley, 

 Moraine Lake, and the Valley of the Ten Peaks. 

 Just west of Lake Louise the train crosses over 

 the Great Divide and shortly afterwards reaches 

 Field (Mt. Stephen House, $4.00 per day, Ameri- 

 can plan). Seven miles from Field is Emerald 

 Lake (Swiss Chalet and two tent camps), and 

 nearby the Yoho Valley (rates at Chalet and camps, 

 $3.50 per day, American plan). The Yoho Valley 

 reminds one of the Yosemite, with the Takakkaw 

 Falls 1200 feet high, the Twin Falls, and the Wapta 

 Glacier. 



The finest scenery on this route lies west of 

 Field in Kicking Horse Canon, Illecillewaet Canon, 

 and in the canons of the Thompson and Fraser 

 rivers. Near Glacier (Glacier House, $3.50 per day, 

 American plan) are two of the largest valley 

 glaciers in the world, the Illecillewaet and the 

 Asulkan. 



The Glacier National Park, with its main en- 

 trance at Glacier Park Station on the main trans- 

 continental line of the Great Northern Railway, 

 is a reservation of 1525 square miles in a splendid 

 portion of the Rocky Mountains. Within its borders 

 are eighty glaciers, 250 mountain lakes and scores 

 of beautiful mountain streams and cataracts. Trips 

 about the park made by auto-stage and horseback. 

 The Park season extends from June 15th to October 

 1st. Two large mountain hotels, Glacier Park and 

 Glacier, and a chain of chalets, $3.00 per day, 

 American plan. 



Spokane, Washington. Within the city limits 

 of Spokane are two falls on the Spokane River, 

 totaling 150 feet in height. An hour's ride from 

 Spokane by the electric trains through the well- 

 developed agricultural lands of the Inland Empire 

 System, is Hayden Lake in the Coeur d'Alene Mount- 

 ains (Bozanta Tavern). 



Lake Chelan, Washington. Reached by a Great 

 Northern branch line thirty-seven miles from 

 Wenatchee, a beautiful mountain lake, sixty miles 

 long, of great depth and hemmed by peaks 7000 

 to 8000 feet in height in the Cascade Mountains. 



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