{"id":72,"date":"2010-01-08T21:59:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T15:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldsbestwalks.wordpress.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2010-01-08T21:59:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T15:59:10","slug":"banff-national-park-alberta-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldsbestwalks.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/lakelouise1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-138\" title=\"lake louise\" src=\"http:\/\/worldsbestwalks.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/lakelouise1.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>How many beautiful walks are there in Canada\u2019s Banff National Park? Too many to fit in a single blog entry! The best I can do is tell you about my favorites \u2026 and there are many. \u00a0Instead of overdosing you on all of them, I am going to roll them out one at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Drum roll please\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>#1 The Crystal Waters of Lake Louise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lake Louise is one of the most popular spots in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banfflakelouise.com\/\">Banff National Park <\/a>and for that reason, you will have plenty of company on your visit. But who cares \u2013 the blue waters of this glacial lake in the mountains are picture perfect and offer an authentic alpine experience.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairmont.com\/EN_FA\/Property\/CLL\/Photos\/propertyphotos\">Fairmont<\/a> has a resort on the lake but it is open to the public.\u00a0 There is a nice walk alongside the lake that is truly pleasant. You can hike further to a teahouse, about a four and a half mile walk.<\/p>\n<p>This is a\u00a0 big ski area \u2013 I visited in the summer and the weather was stunning. Clear and cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many beautiful walks are there in Canada\u2019s Banff National Park? Too many to fit in a single blog entry! The best I can do is tell you about my favorites \u2026 and there are many. \u00a0Instead of overdosing you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/?p=72\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[17,19,24,84],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banff-national-park","category-worldsbestwalks","tag-alberta","tag-banff","tag-canadian-rockies","tag-worldsbestwalks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theworldsbestwalks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}