Jasper Ski Holidays

Après-Ski in Jasper

Apres-ski in Jasper is largely in the downtown core, but it's certainly worth your while having a quick beer on the Marmot Basin day lodge patio at the Caribou Bar, before hopping on the shuttle to town. Here's a few top suggestions for a post-shred shandy:

De'd Dog Bar & Grill

More than any other bar in Jasper, the must-visit De'd Dog Bar & Grill exemplifies all that is good about Jasper apres. Expect a healthy choice of local beers both on tap and by the bottle, as well as a comfort food menu featuring all the favourites you crave. This is a bar where apres isn't just a happy-hour event - it goes on until you're done. And it has a pool table. And a dog.

Jasper Brewing Co.

The Jasper Brewing Co. is Jasper's brew pub serving its own locally produced craft beers as well as a raft of favourite food items. Pils, IPA and Honey beer are all top brews, but you need to try the locals choice - the 6060 Stout. Or go one better and opt for a 'Black 'n' Blue - a Babe Blueberry Vanilla Ale topped by a 6060 Stout. This is Albeerta at its best.

Earls Kitchen + Bar

Earls is an institution and has an authentic home-town sports bar charm, despite the fact it's a franchise brand with outlets across Canada and the States. Relax at the upstairs bar with a choice of beers on tap, great local wines or a hand-made cocktail. Earls serves great appetizers plus a full menu for afterwards. 

Emerald Lounge

Take it up a notch at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge's lobby bar - the Emerald Lounge. This is a picturesque spot with views across to Marmot Basin in the distance. Relax in a comfy chair by the fire, stand at the bar or chill on the patio - whatever the mood, the Emerald has the drink to match. Curated cocktails, fine wines, great beers and beyond.

Dining in Jasper

Silverwater Dining Room

The Silverwater offers some of the finest dining you’ll find in the resort. It’s a part of the Chateau Jasper Hotel, and makes your meal all the more special by having an impressive water feature within the restaurant and a harpist employed to make sweet music five evenings a week. There’s a large menu with local meat and seafood sourced from the Pacific Ocean key ingredients.

Evil Dave’s Grill

Owner and chef David George Husereau isn’t very evil at all; there’s a story behind the restaurant’s name that you should ask about when you dine there. The menu is full of fresh food and fresh ideas and has a relaxed and friendly ambience for dining.

Fiddle River

Fiddle River is a great place to dine if you like the best Canadian cuisine with some of the best views you’ll find, right out over the Colin mountains. Dishes served include local beef, seafood sourced in the Pacific ocean to the west and local game. The restaurant itself is snug and welcoming with works from local artists adorning the walls if you can take your eyes off the food, the scenery or it’s after dark!

The Moose’s Nook Northern Grill

For the best of local fish and meat be it salmon, elk or beef, cooked creatively, try the Moose’s Nook. You’ll find an excellent selection of wines along with the fine food.

Activities in Jasper

Canyon Ice Tour

Your tour will take you in to the local Maligne River, frozen solid through the winter months, where you will be able to see remarkable natural ice structures. Guides will tell you all about the structures and other interesting local facts while ensuring you’re safety. Daily. Takes 3hrs. Departs 10am, 2pm and 7pm.

Cat Skiing and Boarding

Travel 90 minutes from Jasper to Valemount where a special passenger-carrying over-snow tractor will take you up in to the Carand will also serve up a filling meal on-mountain. In other words all the thrills of heliski but without the price tag.

Heli-skiing

Heli-skiing is a very special experience, accessing vast regions of virgin powder snow all to yourself. Long experienced expert guides will take you to the best spots, putting your safety and your enjoyment first. The package includes four ascents and a picnic lunch. The special wide skis required to stay afloat in deep powder are also available to rent.

Snowshoeing

Snowshoeing is increasingly popular at ski areas all around the world, but Jasper goes one better than most and offers ‘heli-snowshoeing.’ Drive for 60 minutes to Mt Robson to board your chopper to Berg Lake where your snowshoeing trip begins – the on-snow bit anyway! Your walk takes you through wonderful scenery to Hargreaves Cabin where a great lunch is served.

Train Tour

Jasper has been around for a century now, first established in 1911 as a pioneering railway settlement named Fitzhugh. You can relive the early days with a historic train trip west to Harvey, returning by road along the scenic Yellowhead Highway, seeing amazing scenery and potentially local wildlife en route.

Winter Wildlife Discovery

Jasper is surrounded by National Park land which is rich in wildlife – from ospreys and eagles flying above, to big horn sheep and mountain goats on the slopres and down in the first moose, elks, deer and bears (although they’ll be fast asleep apart from at the very end of winter). The nature tour aims to show you some of these, or evidence they’ve been around, and also takes you down in the spectacular 50 metre deep Maligne River Canyon where you will see frozen waterfalls before concluding at scenic Medicine Lake. Daily. Takes 3-3.5hrs. Departs 9am