Yoho National Park is poised to finally test-drive a random draw reservation system for the shuttle that whisks people to popular Lake O’Hara for the day.

The drive to the start of the Harvest Trail meanders down a rural road past market gardens selling brown eggs and honey, alongside fields waiting to be planted with wheat, soy and corn crops, and past glorious old barns and yellow warning signs ordering motorists to share the road with tractors.

Cyclists and pedestrians will have two stretches of scenic roadways in Banff National Park almost to themselves this season.

North of the Arctic Circle, our Twin Otter soars over the Mackenzie Delta’s maze of waterways and patchwork of tundra, darts across the Beaufort Sea and passes over the British Mountains before shaking and shuddering its way down to Sheep Creek International Airport. Well, that’s what the hand-painted sign says at the end of the grassy wilderness landing area. Parks Canada marks the spot as Imniarvik base camp in Ivvavik National Park, a place that just 100 or so people get to see each year in the extreme northwest corner of the Yukon.