Destination

Canadian Rockies

Glacial lakes of improbable turquoise, endless pine forest and lodges built for long evenings by the fire.

6 hotels

Lakeside timber building beside turquoise Emerald Lake and mountains, Yoho National Park, Canada

Yoho National Park · Canadian Rockies

Emerald Lake Lodge

Emerald Lake Lodge sits on a peninsula in the most aptly named lake in the Canadian Rockies, its waters a startling jade green beneath the peaks of the President Range. Hidden in Yoho National Park, just over the Continental Divide from Banff, it offers a quieter, more intimate alternative to the grand railway hotels of Lake Louise, with fireplaces in every room, canoes at the shore and trails leading straight from the door.

Banff · Canadian Rockies

Fairmont Banff Springs

Fairmont Banff Springs is the castle in the Rockies, one of the most famous hotels in Canada and a landmark of Banff National Park. Opened by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1888, its turreted, Scottish baronial towers rise from the forest above the meeting of the Bow and Spray rivers, with mountains on every side. It was the railway's dream of luring travellers into the wilderness; as the CPR's William Van Horne put it, "If we can't export the scenery, we will import the tourists."

Guests looking across the lake toward the hotel exterior, Lake Louise, Canada

Lake Louise · Canadian Rockies

Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise

Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise stands on the shore of the most photographed lake in the Canadian Rockies, and few hotel views anywhere are as instantly recognisable. In front of it, the water glows an impossible turquoise; at the far end, the Victoria Glacier hangs between the peaks like a frozen waterfall. The Canadian Pacific Railway built a simple log chalet here in 1890, and over the following decades it grew into the grand, château-style hotel that now anchors one of North America's great mountain landscapes.

Whistler · Canadian Rockies

Fairmont Chateau Whistler

A ski-in, ski-out resort at the foot of Blackcomb Mountain, with 519 rooms, Vida Spa and its own Robert Trent Jones Jr. golf course.

Jasper · Canadian Rockies

Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge

Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge is a sprawling mountain retreat on the shores of Lac Beauvert, a turquoise lake in the heart of Jasper National Park, the largest and wildest of the Canadian Rockies parks. Rather than a single grand building, it is a village of log cabins and cedar chalets scattered across 700 acres of forest and lakeshore, with a celebrated golf course and some of the darkest skies in North America.

Moraine Lake · Canadian Rockies

Moraine Lake Lodge

Moraine Lake Lodge is the only hotel on the shore of Moraine Lake, the glacier-fed jewel of Banff National Park and one of the most famous views in North America. Its brilliant blue water, set beneath the jagged wall of the Valley of the Ten Peaks, once appeared on the back of the Canadian twenty-dollar bill. Every summer day, thousands of visitors arrive by shuttle; but when the last bus leaves, the lake belongs to a few dozen lodge guests, and that is the whole point of staying here.