Jasper National Park is the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies. I had booked a full-day hike on the Athabasca Glacier. My hike to Mt Edith Cavell was cut short by an aggressive grizzly bear.
The Stanley Glacier hike in Kootenay National Park is pretty awesome. It is sometimes referred to as the fire and ice trail, because it goes from burned forest to alpine meadow, to the receding Stanley Glacier.
In 2017 another long-held dream came true when I had a chance to visit the Walcott Quarry, the most famous quarry of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale.
Rondane National Park is the oldest national park in Norway. The landscape looks flat with some hills, but it actually lies at an elevation of 1,000 meter.