Flowing from the glaciers of the Columbia Icefield all the way to the Arctic Ocean, the Athabasca River is the largest river system in Jasper National Park. As such, it is a living textbook of Canada's natural and human history.
Surely the highlight of any tour of the Jasper and the Icefields Parkway has to be a stop at Athabasca Falls, just half an hour south of Jasper's townsite.
The 23-metre Athabasca Falls is not very high by Canadian Rockies standards, but the size of the river makes it one of the most powerful falls to be found in the mountain national parks.
Niagara Falls are bigger, but these are more wild.
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