Sunwapta Falls Rocky Mountain Lodge

Jasper National Park


A welcome Icefields rest stop 53km south of Jasper Town, Sunwapta offers a comfortable mix of suites and lodge rooms, each with a fireplace or wood-burning stove, all just a stone's throw from Sunwapta Falls. Clean and comfortable but not fancy, it's got a good restaurant on-site serving breakfast and dinner, and a cafeteria that's popular with the tour-bus crowd.


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Nearby Jasper National Park attractions

1. Sunwapta Falls

0.37 MILES

Meaning 'turbulent water' in the native language of the Stoney First Nations, the 18m Sunwapta Falls formed when the glacial meltwaters of the Sunwapta…

2. Maligne Lake

11.88 MILES

Almost 50km from Jasper at the end of a stunning road that bears its name, 22km-long Maligne Lake is the recipient of a lot of hype. It's the largest lake…

3. Mary Schäffer Lookout

12.94 MILES

Mary Schäffer was the first non-indigenous woman to travel through much of the Jasper region – this lookout gives you a glimpse of the scenery she loved…

4. Athabasca Falls

13.47 MILES

Despite being only 23m high, Athabasca Falls is Jasper’s most dramatic and voluminous waterfall, a deafening combination of sound, spray and water. The…

5. Horseshoe Lake

14.55 MILES

This idyllic, blue-green horseshoe-shaped lake just off the Icefields Pkwy is missed by many visitors, making a stopover here all the more alluring. A…

6. Rest Stop

16.3 MILES

Pause at this picnic area on the east side of the road between Medicine Lake and Maligne Lake and watch for bears and mountain goats.

7. Jasper National Park

17.38 MILES

Encompassing 11,228 sq km of Rocky Mountains wilderness, including jagged peaks, vast forests, glacial lakes and the magnificent Columbia Icefield, Jasper…

8. Mt Edith Cavell

19.66 MILES

Rising like a snowy sentinel over Jasper Town, Mt Edith Cavell (3363m) is one of the park’s most distinctive and physically arresting peaks. What it lacks…