The Icefields Parkway threads 230 km of the Canadian Rockies between Lake Louise and Jasper, in sight of glaciers and lakes the colour of milk and jade. We draw it from real map data, matched to the road itself. The route is verified against the real road, and your poster ships straight away.

Make it yours: 11 art styles, 10 colourways and your own title, with the poster redrawing live as you pick.

What you get

Paper

200 gsm matte art paper

Print

Giclée, 300 dpi

Frames

Black, white or natural timber, ready to hang

Preview

The preview is the finished poster. We print the design you approve in the preview, with no proof to wait on.

The route

From Lake Louise the road runs north past Bow Lake and the Peyto Lake viewpoint, climbs over Sunwapta Pass to the Columbia Icefield, then drops past Sunwapta Falls and Athabasca Falls into Jasper. Crews built it through the Depression as a relief project, starting in 1931 and finishing in 1940, working largely by hand and horse team with only one tractor to a camp; the road was not fully paved until 1961.

The milky turquoise the lakes are known for comes from rock flour, fine mineral silt ground out by the glaciers above and carried down into the water by meltwater streams, where it stays suspended and scatters the light. Peyto Lake looks almost artificial from the lookout above it, the colour shifting through the season as the melt rises and falls with the summer heat.

Made for someone who drove it. Or for your own wall, because you did.

Related routes: Blue Ridge Parkway, Cabot Trail and Going-to-the-Sun Road.

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