Featured Stop: Jasper Park Lodge

If you enjoy golf alongside remote cabin surrounds, Jasper Park Lodge in Alberta, Canada might be for you.

To be sure, we are talking about a voyage that is not for the faint of heart. It’s located four hours north of Banff, a good eight hours from the U.S.-Canada border. But here, you’re after serenity and scenery anyway, and the winding mountain drive is part of the experience. Tuck Jasper into a larger trip to Banff and you’ve uncovered a golf trip worth the trouble.

What you’ll find at the Jasper Park Lodge Golf Club are expansive views through towering pines, a rugged golf course designed by Stanley Thompson and ranked the 5th-best in Canada. What’s more Canadian than a golf course built on manpower, where, as Golf Digest writes, “rocks were piled and covered with earth to create greens like the one on the short par-3 15th, a shot so precarious it’s like hitting to the back of a slumbering sea lion?”

The summer greens fees are not necessarily cheap, at $260 a head. But you can score a room at the associated Fairmont for less than $500 and may catch a deal—last year, they ran a stay-and-play where they’d comp you a round each day on property. Worth checking with staff whether they could offer something similar today, and worth keeping Jasper Park in mind next time you’re considering a golf excursion north of the border.

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