The Best Places to Elope in Jasper
Maligne Lake and Spirit Island, Pyramid Island, the Columbia Icefield, and Athabasca Falls each give a completely different photograph. Here is what each delivers.
Couples treat Jasper as Banff with fewer people.
It is a wilder animal, and that is the reason to choose it.
Jasper trades the resort polish for genuine wilderness, and each of its locations gives a different day. Pick the feeling, and the place follows.
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Maligne is the largest glacial lake in the Rockies, and Spirit Island near its south end is one of the most photographed spots in Canada, reached by boat, framed against a wall of peaks in still water.
Maligne Lake and Pyramid Island
Maligne is the largest glacial lake in the Rockies, and Spirit Island near its south end is one of the most photographed spots in Canada, reached by boat, framed against a wall of peaks in still water.
For the accessible counterpoint, a footbridge leads to Pyramid Island minutes from the townsite, Pyramid Mountain rising behind, quietly one of the most reliable ceremony settings in the park.
The Columbia Icefield and Athabasca Falls
The Columbia Icefield is the largest in the Rockies, and the Athabasca Glacier flowing from it is one of the few a couple can stand on, a landscape of blue ice and rock unlike anywhere else in the country.
Athabasca Falls carves through a limestone gorge with real motion and sound. And Jasper is the world's second-largest dark-sky preserve, so a star-filled nighttime portrait is genuinely possible.
The right place depends on what the photographs need to hold. I plan that around you, arrange any boat access and permit, and both shoot and film the day. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, Jasper rewards couples who want solitude over polish.
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