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Walkers on the Athabasca Glacier, Jasper National Park, Canada

A close-up of the Athabasca Glacier in Jasper National Park in Canada, with the tiny specks of people on the glacier looking at the blue ice formations in the distance
Rebecca Latson
Thursday, February 20, 2020

Our neighbor to the north has some pretty spectacular landscapes in their own national parks. The Athabasca Glacier, in Jasper National Park, is one of several "toes" of the Columbia Icefield, which itself is a remnant of a thick ice mass that once blanketed most of Western Canada's mountains.

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