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Canadian Rockies and Vancouver road trip gear

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larsbc Forum Pro • Posts: 18,282
Re: Canadian Rockies and Vancouver road trip gear
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If you're going through Revelstoke, Takakkaw Falls might be on your way. From Hwy 1 it's about a 20km round trip plus another half hour to take some photos. But what I really liked about this short detour was seeing the crazy section of road to get there. It zig zags very steeply. So steeply that motorhomes are advised to reverse up a couple legs of the zig zags rather than attempting to turn. Even in our Toyota Tacoma it was a tight turn. A guy ahead of us on his Honda Goldwing stalled and dropped his bike. Trailers, of course, are not allowed.

Another interesting stop which is right on Hwy 1, between Revelstoke and Banff (near the town of Field) are the Spiral Tunnels. Like the road to Takakkaw Falls, it's another approach to dealing with switchbacks but for trains. In this case, rather than resort to switchbacks, the engineers built a spiral train tunnel into the mountain, like a spiral staircase. It's a busy rail route so if you're willing to wait (bring a lunch) you might get to see a train use the tunnel and see one end entering while at the same time seeing the other end exiting. Every time I've been there I haven't had to wait long before seeing a train. Just lucky, I guess.

https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/bc/yoho/culture/kickinghorse/visit/spirale-spiral

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