Backpacking the Jasper Highlands

Join us in Jasper National Park for a really spectacular backpacking journey, one that alternates between the tundra of the alpine meadows and the lush conifer forests of the valleys below. It’s an area abundant in wildlife, don’t be surprised to see mountain caribou grazing on a distant ridge! In the remote headwaters of Jasper National Park's Brazeau River, where Poboktan and Jonas Creeks pass, are huge expanses of alpine meadows that we call the Jasper Highlands! This hiking journey circumnavigates much of this expanse in a huge triangular route also known as the "Brazeau Loop". The South Branch of the Brazeau River which we follow for the first two days is a very old trail long used by the indigenous people to be followed later by European trappers and explorers. Now this trail is used by backpackers and wildlife including wolves and the elusive mountain caribou. The ambiance of this valley plus that of the peaks and meadows above is evocative of all that is wild, remote and beautiful in the northern reaches of the Canadian Rockies.