Welcome to The Banff Blog
We’re Cameron & Natasha
We’re fortunate to call Canmore home and share our expertise with our readers. The site features our experiences, combined with our photography, to craft informative guides for travel around the Canadian Rockies. We extend a bit past them, too, covering large parts of British Columbia and Alberta.
We spent years without a home base as we ran our world travel blog, The World Pursuit, we worked across six continents and 80 countries. It took us…
…until we set up a base in the Canadian Rockies. Since that day, we’ve been exploring everything the Canadian Rockies offer.
We’ve spent thousands of hours crafting The Banff Blog to help make planning a trip to the Rockies easy! Everything on this site we have personally researched and spent years of our lives exploring and exploring. It is the best job in the world!
All the information we share is FREE!
In a world of AI, know that all of the content you see on this site is written by the two of us. All of our recommendations come from our personal experiences after years of living here, and we provide the photos to prove it. We stay up to date with all the Park rules and spend an ungodly amount of hours making sure all the information is correct for the the current year (because the rules in Banff change all the time). If you’d like to support our work, we always accept coffees, or you can shop our recommendations to support our site directly – at no extra cost to you!
Discover Helpful Info & Advice
On this website, you’ll find helpful travel tips, hotel reviews, restaurant suggestions, itineraries, and trail reports for the Canadian Rockies and surrounding areas. We strive to provide up-to-date information and helpful guides.
Unless otherwise noted, every blog post on this website is written by us or a few of our local writers and comes from our personal experiences. We hope you can make the most of your time in one of the most magnificent parts of the world.
We haven’t explored every nook and cranny of the Rockies yet! However, we’ll do our best to bring you the best information, even if it takes us a lifetime to explore the region.
This website is the result of hundreds of thousands of photos taken, thousands of kilometers trekked, dozens of mountains summited, plenty of busted hiking shoes, and only a few days of freezing our butts with mild frostbite, so we hope you enjoy!
CO-Founder
Natasha
The blonde in all these photos? It’s me! I love yoga pants, movies, snowboarding, animals, hiking, traveling to far-off places…and sushi – okay, I love many things.
But how did this whole travel and blog thing actually start? Let’s just say one study abroad semester in Australia completely rewired my brain — and there was no going back. After college, I met Cameron, and together we’ve turned “let’s go somewhere” into a full-blown lifestyle. Back in 2015, we booked one way tickets and started a travel blog. Now we’ve been to 95 countries and counting!
Eventually, after years of living out of suitcases and collecting passport stamps like it was our job (because, well… it kind of was), we finally decided to plant some roots. And where did two world travelers land? Only the most jaw-droppingly gorgeous — and aggressively cold — place we’d ever been: the Canadian Rockies. No regrets. Many layers. When the “C” word hit in 2020, and we were “stuck” in the most beautiful place on earth, we decided it was time to start another endeavour – the blog you’re currently reading!
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CO-Founder
Cameron
Hello, I’m Cameron, and I make up one-half of this blog. I’m a big music fan, and I don’t discriminate. I could write a list of my favorite artists, but it would likely get out of hand! I love to cook, and Natasha does the dishes, so I’m always trying out new recipes — not sure who gets the better deal.
I take most of the photos around here while Natasha crushes it with helpful videos on Instagram. My passions currently bounce between mountaineering, snowboarding, and mountain biking. But quite honestly, every year brings some new endeavor I want to try out!
Want to connect with us more?
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To learn more about us, visit our parent blog, The World Pursuit.
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If you want to contact us to partner for business ventures, please see our Work With Us page or shoot us an email at hello (at) thebanffblog.com.
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Questions About Our Photography Kit? We’ve been shooting on Fujifilm cameras for almost 10 years now, currently the Fujifilm X-T5 and XS20. We even shot a camera launch video with the Fujifilm team! View our travel photography kit HERE.
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If you have questions about your trip to the Canadian Rockies, we try our best to respond to questions posted in our private Facebook group. We’d love to have you join.
Please understand that we cannot answer direct social media messages, emails, or accept personal Facebook friend requests to help you map out your trip to the Rockies.As much as we would like to, we simply don’t have that kind of time, and we almost guarantee your question is answered somewhere on this blog, so we encourage you to click around and use the search bar on the site.
