Backcountry Lodges ($-$$$)
Mount Engadine Lodge
Spray Lakes Road (Kananaskis), 40 minutes from Canmore.
Tel: 403-678-4080, Fax: 403-678-2109
Accessible by car, amazing wilderness surroundings, excellent hiking and cross-country skiing, licensed dining room.
Banff Sundance Lodge
Box 2280, Banff, Alberta T0L 0C0.
Tel: 403-762-4551
16 km from Banff townsite, accessible by cross-country skiing and hiking. Indoor washrooms with showers, all meals and bedding provided. Summer and winter only.
Brewster's Shadow Lake Lodge
Box 2606, Banff, Alberta T0L 0C0.
Tel: 403-762-0116; Fax: 403-762-2866;
Email: shadow@telusplanet.net
12 cabins, licensed dining located 14 km from Red Earth Creek trailhead parking. By cross-country skiing in the winter, and by hiking or horseback in the summer. All meals and bedding provided.
Skoki Lodge
Box 5, Lake Louise, Alberta T0L 1E0.
Tel: 403-522-3555
Provides comfortable accommodation in an atmosphere of burnished logs, rugged stone fireplaces, good food, good folk and good times. Located 11 km by trail (hiking or cross-country skiing) from Lake Louise Ski area. Winter and summer only.
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