Location: Alberta, Canada
The largest national park in the Canadian Rockies, Jasper is wild in every sense of the word. Its landscape covers an expansive region of rugged back country trails and mountainous terrain juxtaposed against fragile protected ecosystems as well as the world-renowned Columbia Ice field. It’s also chock-full of wildlife, home to some of North America’s healthiest populations of grizzly bears, moose, and elk along with thousands of species of plants and insects.
Jasper National Park, covering 11,228 km (6,976 miles), is listed as one of only 15 UNESCO extraordinary sites in Canada. It's shimmering glaciers, abundant wildlife, crystal clear lakes, thundering waterfalls, deep canyons and evergreen forest, all surrounded by towering, rugged mountain peaks are some of the reasons you will find it on the UNESCO's World Heritage List – deemed by the World Heritage Committee to number among the most significant sights on earth.
The next time someone tells you to take a walk off a cliff, go ahead and oblige them.. just do it at Jasper National Park. The Glacier Sky walk offers some absolutely breathtaking views of the National Park, so long as you don't mind standing on glass that sticks out a thousand feet above a canyon.
The Sky walk, which opened just last week, was created by Brewster Travel Canada, Sturgess Architecture, and Read Jones Christofferson Engineering. The curved walkway takes visitors up to 100 feet off the cliff, which is nerve wracking on its own, until you realize that the floor is made of glass.
Check out the images of Jasper's new sky walk below, and if you're brave enough to try it out yourself, send us your own pictures!
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