Emerald Lake

Legend has it that when a mountain guide rounding up runaway horses came upon the shores of Emerald Lake in the 1880s, he stopped in his tracks. Visitors who venture deep into the Yoho Valley to find the lake today have much the same mesmerized reaction.

A hiking trail encircles the blue-green lake and ambles along the gravel fan at the far end, providing an up-close look at what’s left in the wake of a receding glacier.