In early September I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to visit the Ya Ha Tinda Ranch area for a couple of days. It’s a little of a bit of a drive to get there, mostly on gravel roads, but it really is a beautiful area. I wasn’t doing a specific hike here, so there’s no trail that I can really describe. Instead I’ll provide a lot of photos, the area was so awe striking it doesn’t justify a description!

If you carried on walking in this direction you’d eventually get back to Banff National Park

The scenery was truly amazing, it was like a little piece of prairie in the middle of the mountains

Hiking through lots of dense dwarf birch patches at times

There were still some snow patches on the ground after the early September snowfall

It was really amazing to see this little area of…