View Tom Dempsey's favorite photos of Canadian mountain parks (highlights selected from extensive separate galleries).

Below are Tom Dempsey's favorite images from an RV camping trip in October 2014 into eastern Canada to see: Niagara Falls (in Ontario) and Hopewell Rocks sunrise, extreme tides on Bay of Fundy, St Martins, and Fundy Trail Parkway (in New Brunswick).

The scenic Stewart–Cassiar Highway (Highway 37, aka Dease Lake Highway or Stikine Highway) is the northwesternmost highway in BC.

View Tom Dempsey's photos of four Canadian Rockies national parks: Banff, Jasper, Kootenay, Yoho. - Banff NP: bicycle Icefields Parkway, Lake Louise, Mount Temple, Mt Chephren, Moraine Lake, canoes, Valley of Ten Peaks, Sentinel Pass, Herbert Lake, Morant's Curve, Bow Valley Parkway, Johnston Canyon, Ink Pots, Peyto Lake, Saskatchewan Glacier, Parker Ridge, Mount Athabasca, Marvel Lake, Bryant Creek, Egypt Lake, Whistling Pass, Mount Edith Trail & Cory Pass. - Jasper NP: Mount Edith Cavell, Tramway views, Maligne Canyon, Medicine Lake, Coleman Glacier, and Upper & Lower Sunwapta Falls. - Yoho NP: Lake O'Hara, Odaray Highline Trail, Takakkaw Falls, Iceline Trail, Emerald Lake Lodge, Mount Burgess, rain storm, atmospheric fog. - Various parks: Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Mountain goat, elk (wapiti), osprey, rock & lichen patterns.

View Tom Dempsey's photos of Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, British Columbia. Mount Assiniboine (3618 meters or 11,870 feet elevation) is the "Matterhorn of Canada," reachable on foot or via helicopter. It is part of Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site declared by UNESCO in 1984. Photos include Lake Magog, Sunburst Lake, Cerulean Lake, Nub Peak trail, and a Columbian Ground Squirrel. Hike from Banff National Park to Rock Isle Lake via Sunshine Meadows, or backpack further to Mount Assiniboine.

View Tom Dempsey's photos of Mount Robson Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada. Rising to 3954 meters or 12,972 feet elevation, Mount Robson is the highest point in the Canadian Rockies. Mount Robson is part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site declared by UNESCO in 1984. Images include: Berg Lake, Berg Glacier, Snowbird Pass (plus Coleman Glacier, in Jasper National Park), Robson Glacier, Emperor Falls, fall foliage colors, blue & orange butterflies, Aspen trees, braided gravel river, sedimentary rock patterns.

View Tom Dempsey's photos of Kananaskis Country parks including Peter Lougheed Provincial Park (off Kananaskis Lakes Trail highway) in Alberta, Canada. Images include: golden larch trees, grizzly bear (brown bear), pica, ptarmigan, Chester Lake Trail & Three Lakes Valley, Galatea Creek Trail to Lillian Lake & Galatea Lakes, Mount Kidd reflects in Kananaskis River, Rawson Lake trail, Mari Lake reflections, Sarrail Creek waterfall, and Upper Kananaskis Lake. Kananaskis Country is an improvement district (rural municipal administration) west of Calgary in the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies.

Bugaboo Provincial Park lies in the Purcell Mountain Range south of Golden, British Columbia. In late September, Bugaboo Park is lightly visited and has the best fall colors for the forest of tamarack larch with deciduous yellow needles. Most tourists are attracted by nearby Canadian Rockies parks along fast paved highways and skip gravel logging roads, thereby leaving the spectacular "Bugaboos" as a quiet retreat for hikers, climbers, and luxury CMH helicopter guests. Hike to Conrad Kain Hut 2400 feet vertically in 3 miles for breathtaking views of nearby Bugaboo Glacier, soaring granite spires, and sedimentary Rocky Mountains across the valley. Day hike or stay overnight with convenient shelter in Kain Hut, which for a fee provides propane stoves and space for a sleeping bag. Directions: From Spillimacheen or Brisco (44 km north of Invermere on Hwy 95), follow signs to Bugaboo Provincial Park and CMH Lodge on a gravel logging road. After 47 kms (1.5 hours drive), turn right on a rougher road to reach Cobalt Lake trail head and Kain Hut trail head, or continue straight along Bugaboo Forest Service Road. Before you reach the gate of luxury CMH Bugaboo Lodge, a left turn crosses Bugaboo Creek bridge: then a left reaches Bugaboo Septet Recreation Site (4 primitive campsites in a free, user-maintained campground reachable by 2WD vehicles) or straight up takes 4WD vehicles and hikers to Chalice Creek trailhead.

View Tom Dempsey's photos of Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks of British Columbia (BC), in Canada, North America.

View Tom Dempsey's photos of Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada. Images include: Waterton Lake mountain reflections, Red Rock Canyon, colorful sedimentary geology. Waterton Lakes is part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site declared by UNESCO in 1984.

View Tom Dempsey's photos of Bowron Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. The park has a wonderful 73-mile canoe trip where you paddle a rectangular circuit of wilderness lakes and portage by rolling your canoe on wheels.

- The Resort Municipality of Whistler is popular for year-round outdoor sports in the Coast Range, British Columbia, Canada. On Whistler Mountain, hike the High Note Trail to Harmony Lake and onward to views of turquoise Cheakamus Lake in Garibaldi Provincial Park. Hike the Overlord Trail on Blackcomb Mountain (2440 meters) for flowers and good views in the Spearhead Range across Fitzsimmons Valley. The Peak 2 Peak Gondola connects Whistler Village Gondola with Solar Coaster Express on Blackcomb Mountain for hikers and skiers. - Three gloriously sunny days with no wind made for perfect backpacking to turquoise Garibaldi Lake and glorious Panorama Ridge, in Garibaldi Provincial Park, east of the Sea to Sky Highway (Route 99) between Squamish and Whistler in the Coast Range of BC. - Photos by Tom Dempsey.

View Tom Dempsey's photos from the City of Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada.

Below are Tom Dempsey's images from an RV camping trip in October 2014 into eastern Canada to see sights along the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick: Hopewell Rocks sunrise, extreme tides, St Martins, and Fundy Trail Parkway. Bay of Fundy has the highest tidal range in the world, due to a resonance of being just the right length (270 km) matching the gravitational pushing cycle of the Moon that causes the tides. Coincidentally, the time it takes a large wave to go from the mouth of the bay to the inner shore and back is practically the same as the time from one high tide to the next. (You can see the effect of resonance for yourself by steadily pushing a long pan of water back and forth: an optimal pushing frequency for a given pan length will build up a high wave of water which sloshes out; but pushing too fast or too slow won't build up the big wave.) Two high tides occur per day, one when the ocean side is nearest the Moon, and one on the side of the Earth most distant from the Moon, about 12 hours and 25 minutes from one high tide to the next. The Bay of Fundy is on the Atlantic coast of North America, on the northeast end of the Gulf of Maine between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. St. Martins (2006 population: 386) is 40 km east of Saint John. St. Martins (originally known as Quaco) was founded by Loyalists in 1783. Its important 1800s shipbuilding center faded, leaving tourism as today's major industry.

The town of Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada, gives excellent views of all three sections of Niagara Falls, which drops 167 feet (51 m). Niagara Falls has the highest flow rate of any waterfall in the world. Niagara Falls is the name for the combined flow of Horseshoe Falls, American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls, on the Niagara River along the international border between Ontario, Canada and New York, USA. The Niagara River drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario. Horseshoe Falls is the most powerful waterfall in North America, as measured by vertical height combined with flow rate. The falls are 17 miles north-northwest of Buffalo, New York and 75 miles south-southeast of Toronto.