Although our Alberta road trip plans were cut short due to snow storms, we weren’t going to miss driving back from Lake Louise along the Bow River Parkway.  It’s a scenic, winding 2 lane road through the forest, well known for its mountain vistas and wildlife sightings.  This drive didn’t disappoint.

This is what most of the hour and a half drive looked like – forests and snow-capped mountain peaks.  We only saw maybe eight other cars for the length of the drive.  I took this picture standing in the middle of the road:

Here’s Castle Mountain:

Pilot Mountain:

Mountain views across Moose Meadows:

One of a few wildlife sightings of the week:

The Bow River Parkway stops just short of Banff.  There’s a wonderful spot to pull off the Trans Canada offering spectacular 360 degree views:

Here we are a few minutes outside Banff as the sun was beginning to set on our first ever day in Alberta: