Banff Highlights & Wildlife | Award-Winning Small Group Adventure
Description
Explore with Banff's top-rated tour operator down backroads teeming with wildlife, plus our selection of Banff’s best viewpoints and secret spots. Along the journey, you’ll be wowed by local tales and the fascinating history of Banff’s indigenous and European past as well as fun facts about our local wildlife, as we explore Banff’s backroads travelling through forests, mountain passes and wildlife corridors that bears, elk, moose, bighorn sheep, lynx, cougars, coyotes, foxes, deer and more call home. Thanks to our small group and tour vehicle size, the access to areas of Banff that we have and our expert local guides insider knowledge, we see wildlife on 95% of our daily summer departures.
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Itinerary
Your expert local guide will tailor make the itinerary for each tour. Every day, we connect with other tour operators and Banff locals to gather information about recent wildlife sightings and consider seasonal weather conditions & big bus tour company schedules to ensure that you're getting the best, most authentic experience without the crowds! The destinations listed below are just some of the amazing stops you'll make on this tour.
Ascend up Mount Norquay, the home of Banff's first ski resort and visit our favourite viewpoint showcasing the town of Banff and the big mountains that surround it.
Keep your eyes peeled for bears, elk, bighorn sheep, deer, coyotes, foxes & other wildlife as we travel deep into Banff National Park to explore the deep blue glacially fed lakes of Lake Minnewanka & Two Jack Lake.
Take a short walk to one of Banff National Parks red chair destinations with epic views of the Hoodoo's and the Canadian Rockies as they sprawl across the Bow Valley
Gaze through the alpine forests up Tunnel Mountain through to a famous local hotel that resembles a castle in the sky!
Visit the incredible Bow Falls, home to the famous scene from the 1953 Marilyn Monroe film "River of No Return".
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Pickup times may shift by 5 to 10 minutes depending on group size, so please be ready a little early. To keep your day running smoothly, be sure to select your pickup location before the tour. We can only collect guests from a confirmed pickup point.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Service animals allowed
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Children 8 and under are unable to join our small group adventures
- Call 4034939556 for any questions.
Reviews(846)
Great trip with overview of Banff, nature and wildlife. Gabi was excellent guide and offered a lot of great insight, stories and information.
Great overview of places we would not have visited and great guide. Saw a few animals , no bears but that would have been unlikely.
Our guide Ellie was great. You can tell she loves her job and the beauty of the park She was very knowledgeable
Bee from Radventures was engaging and energetic. There were twelve family members on the tour and everyone was pleased. We saw Elk, Mule Deer, Whitetail Deer, a Bighorn Sheep, and a Black Bear with three cubs…very entertaining! Also observed some beautiful parts of Banff.
Our guide is very informative and fun character. We learned a lot. Thanks Max!
Max the guide was fantastic and provided really interesting and relevant information that helped to understand the history and nature. He made the evening!
Max is really great tour guide
Nice tour that gives lot of good info including history of canadian rockies, canada and banff in general. They also take you to spots where there is a good chance of seeing elks, big horn sheep, bears (black and grizzly if lucky). Max is an awesome guide and highly recommend
Max knows the Rockies the way a local should, not just where to look for wildlife but why the landscape looks the way it does and what the history behind it all actually means. Really glad it came across on the day. Thanks for recommending him and hope to have you back sometime.
What a fun experience for our family. We came as a large group, 12 people, and Radventures was able to accommodate us all in one comfy van. Our guide, Bee, was knowledgeable and funny and we loved our time with her. We saw a mama bear and her 3 cubs, big horn sheep, elk, and white tailed deer. In addition to the wildlife, we saw really incredible, scenic spots all around Banff. Great experience!
A mama bear with three cubs, bighorn sheep, elk and white tailed deer with 12 people all crammed into one properly good van, that's a family trip done right. Bee is brilliant with groups and we love that the wildlife and the scenery both delivered. Really glad everyone had a great time and hope to see the whole crew back in Banff again.
Liam had exceptional knowledge, he was engaging and throughly entertaining..! 5 stars and we will come back and use the same company next year.
Exceptional, engaging and thoroughly entertaining, Liam will absolutely love reading that. We'll take you up on the return visit next year too, Banff has a way of pulling people back and we'd love to be part of it again.
