Three trips. Over 100 places mapped. One guide that actually tells you what to do, where to eat, where to stay, and which hikes are worth setting a 5am alarm for. This is the Banff resource we kept wishing existed, so we built it ourselves.

Planning a Banff trip is overwhelming. The lake photos alone will send you down a three-hour rabbit hole before you've booked a single thing. We've been there, literally, three times now, and every trip taught us something the last one didn't. This guide pulls all of it together: the itineraries, the logistics, the 100+ places we've mapped across the Canmore, Banff and into Yoho, and the honest opinions on where to spend your time and money. Consider it your shortcut to skipping the planning spiral and getting straight to the good part.