Travel reviews
Description
Duration : About 90 minutes
Schedule : 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. from May 1 to October 1st
Season : May 1 to October 10
Departing from : Columbia Icefields Glacier Discovery Centre (Highway 93 N)
Drive out onto the Athabasca Glacier, at an altitude of 2,700 metres, in an all-terrain Ice Explorer, a massive vehicle specially designed for glacier travel. On this thrilling trip, an experienced driver-guide will share a wealth of fascinating information about glaciers and their impact on our environment.
The snow coach will travel to a place where you can stop and take photos, walk on the ice and fill your bottle with fresh glacier water.
The Athabasca Glacier is one of the 6 principal glaciers fed by the Columbia Icefields. This once-in-a-lifetime experience is a must for anyone visiting the Icefields Parkway!
Rates
Season | Adult | 6 to 15 yrs old | 0 to 5 yrs old |
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2025/05/03 to 2025/10/13 | $84 | $55 | $0 |
* A hike on the glacier is also possible. For more information, please contact your travel agent.
* This excursion will take you out onto the Athabasca Glacier in an all-terrain Ice Explorer, a massive vehicle specially designed for glacier travel.
* During this thrilling trip, an experienced driver-guide will share a wealth of fascinating information about glaciers and their impact on our environment.
* Your visit includes a stop at a place where you can walk on the ice and fill your bottle with fresh glacier water.
Location
Centre du Champ-de-Glace (Highway 93), Jasper, (AB)
Travel reviews
Humbling experience
Good to do and very knowledgeable staff, just very sad on a personnel level to know how far the glacier used to go and when it will be completely gone. I'm really glad I got to experience it and see it. Best water I have ever drunk from there!!! Lots of other buses and people on the glacier at the same time. Booked the Skywalk separate but still used the same transport provided by the company.
Sadly, slowly receeding due to global warming. Act now!
Take a sip from the Glacial stream.
Great experience.
(Translated by Google) Only regret the comments intended for English speakers sometimes make it difficult to understand