Your Travel Experience with ARRIVAL
Day 1
ARRIVAL
Meet your crew in Calgary and hit the road west, trading concrete for sky-splitting peaks. Arrive in Lake Louise and pitch your tent surrounded by alpine majesty. There's a first-night fire to spark, a shared meal to cook and a sense that something big has begun. The city is behind you. Your boots are laced. And the mountains? They're waiting.
Day 1 - 3
Lake Louise Campground
Wake up steps from world-famous trails, with the hum of the Bow River and peaks on all sides. This well-equipped campground makes life easy with hot showers, bear-safe storage and a guided tent setup so you can focus on the good stuff – like sunrise hikes or late-night stargazing without lifting a finger.
Day 2
Wilcox Pass / Icewalk Glacier
Choose your own alpine adventure: a windswept trail above the treeline with endless glacier views, or a bucket-list walk across the icy spine of the Athabasca Glacier. Whether you’re crunching across ancient ice or hiking past Bighorn sheep in the clouds, this is high-altitude wilderness at its finest. Note: extra costs apply for the icewalk (booked on site).
Day 3
Bow Glacier Falls Trek
Follow the shoreline of turquoise Bow Lake as it carves a path through the valley, leading you to the thunder of Bow Glacier Falls. It’s an easy trek with a cinematic payoff – towering cliffs, icy meltwater and the roar of a waterfall born from glacial time. One foot in the now, one in the Ice Age.
Day 4
Plain of Six Glaciers Hike
This is the Rockies in their Sunday best. A classic alpine route that weaves past ice-cloaked giants. As you climb, the glacier count – and your awe for Mother Nature – rises. The trail ends in a high bowl surrounded by ice and stone, where silence says more than a selfie ever could.
Day 5
Iceline Trail Hike
This one earns its name. The Iceline is a high route that dances along the edge of glacier tongues and looks down on the misty plunge of Takakkaw Falls. It’s rugged, steep, and jaw-droppingly beautiful – an all-day epic that rewards every step with outrageous views and alpine drama.
Day 4 - 6
Golden Campground Area
Nestled between the wild edges of Yoho and Glacier National Parks, this campground gives you that true back-of-beyond feel – without losing access to real adventure. Sites vary, but expect forested solitude, mountain air and serious proximity to trails that stay off most tourists’ radar. Rustic, remote and wildly rewarding.
Day 6
Rafting Kicking Horse River (Optional)
If whitewater’s your thing, this river’s got teeth. Kicking Horse delivers fast, cold, adrenaline-heavy hits with optional rafting trips that can be booked on site. It’s the perfect way to break up the stillness of the peaks with a surge of energy. Extra costs apply.
Day 7
Banff Upper Hot Springs
After a week of hauling your body up ridgelines and into glacial zones, this is the reward. Slip into mineral-rich pools that have been soothing sore muscles for over a century. Steam curls into mountain air, aches fade and everything slows.
Soak, Reflect, Return
Ease into the morning at Banff’s Upper Hot Springs. The water’s warm, the views are wide and your legs finally thank you. After the soak, it’s back to Calgary – rehydrated, slightly sunburnt and full of memories. One last story, one last selfie, one last ride. The Rockies gave you everything. Now you just have to carry it home.