Books & Maps

Canadian Rockies Trail Guide
The most comprehensive guide to trails in the national and provincial parks of the Canadian Rockies. With descriptions of 233 hikes and routes, 150 photographs and 40 new maps, it is a great source for planning your hiking adventure.
By Brian Patton & Bart Robinson

How Old is that Mountain
By Chris Yorath
Illustrated with more than 60 photographs, maps and diagrams, this book is an excellent field guide offering visitors a new understanding of this popular tourist destination.

Canadian Rockies Hiking Package
Ideal for anyone interested in hiking trips throughout the Canadian Rockies.
Save 10% when you buy these books as a package!

• The Canadian Rockies Trail Guide (a hiker's Guide to Banff, Jasper, Yoho, Kootenay, Waterton Lakes, Mount Assiniboine and Mount Robson)
• Handbook of the Canadian Rockies by Ben Gadd. Allows you to identify anything you might see while hiking in the Canadian Rockies.
• Two topographic maps:combined, Lake Louise & Yoho Yoho, a 1:50,000 topographic map.

Lake O'Hara Map & Trail Guide
Gem Trek Publishing
This 1:20,000 scale map has detailed trail descriptions of the many great hikes in the Lake O'Hara area.

Lake Louise & Yoho Map
Gem Trek Publishing
1:50,000 topographic map, with detailed maps of Lake O'Hara and Lake Louise, as well as information on Gem Trek's "Pick of the Hikes".

Yoho National Park, An Interpretive Guide
By Lisa Chevalier & Kathryn Cameron
An informative exploration of the natural and cultural history of Yoho National Park. Loaded with illustrations and photos of this dramatic mountain landscape.

Handbook of the Canadian Rockies
By Ben Gadd
The only guidebook you'll need for the Rockies! Over 800 pages explain geology, weather and climate, plants, lichens, mushrooms, bugs, fish, birds, mammals, history, recreation and safety.

Climate Change and Landscape
By Rutter, Coppold & Rokosh
The goal of this book is to explain climate change science by examining the recent Ice Age history so spectacularly exposed in the Canadian Rocky Mountain landscape.

Bear on the Train
By Julie Lawson
Lawson's spare prose is filled with imagery, rhyme, rhythm and alliteration. This is the story of a bear that hibernates inside a train hopper and sleeps on until the fresh smells of spring fill the air. This story is illustrated by Brian Deines and includes drawings of the Spiral Tunnels and the town of Field.

Trackside Guide to C.P. Rail
By Jackie Morris
A kilometer by kilometer description of the tracks between Banff, Alberta, and Craigellachie, B.C. Includes suggested side trips and background information which Reveal the past and present history of CP Rail.

Canadian Pacific's Big Hill
By Floyd Yeats
A tribute to 20 miles of the original mainline of the Canadian Pacific Railway containing the greatest concentration of engineering and operating problems.

Canadian Pacific in The Rockies (Volume I)
D.M. Bain
All photographs (except for one) were taken by Nicholas Morant. This great book is dedicated to this very special person.

Spiral Tunnels-Centennial Edition
By Graeme Pole
This book is revised and enlarged for the centennial of the completion of the Spiral Tunnels, and incorporates more than 100 photographs. This book is informative and entertaining reading for railway enthusiasts, as well as for those with a more casual interest in the human history of Yoho National Park.

Wonderful Life
By Stephen Jay Gould
In his best-selling book, Gould sheds light on the role the Burgess Shale plays in the interpretation of evolution and the nature of history. The book describes dozens of strange and exotic species deposited more than 515 million years ago in what is now Yoho National Park.

A Geoscience Guide to the Burgess Shale
Geology and Paleontology in Yoho National Park.
By Murray Coppold and Wayne Powell
This book has been produced in full colour, with eighty photographs and diagrams.