Medicine Lake is the intriguing lake of mystery and Native legends, and the lake before Maligne Lake. Medicine Lake is drained by one of the largest underground river systems in North America. The water level of the lake varies from season to season. It disappears except for a few streams completely every fall. In the spring time the lake water reemerges. Natives once thought that “spirits” were responsible for the dramatic fluctuations in the placid waters. They called it Medicine Lake of course when the Lake reemerges the water looks a bit murky, like medicine in a bottle.
Maligne Lake
The Iconic Spirit Island on Maligne Lake Maligne Lake is Jasper’s oldest attraction. It is the largest lake in the Canadian Rockies, and was known to the Stoney Indians as Chaba Imne-Great Beaver Lake. A one and a half hour boat cruise will take you past glacier...
Athabasca Falls
Most powerful waterfall on the Icefield Parkway Among the most breathtaking and powerful falls in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, the Athabasca River thunders through a narrow gorge where the walls have been smoothed and potholed by the sheer force of the rushing waters...
