05/05/19 Banff Park Museum, Cave & Basin National Historic Site

We woke up to snow covering our jeep and decided to stay one more day and go to the Banff Park Museum and Cave & Basin National HistoricSite. They’re both free to enter with the Canada parks pass.

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The Parks Museum was advertised as a history museum, which we thought was the history of the park or the area. It’s a history of the animals and birds in the country, with exhibits. The oldest exhibit is a red-breasted merganser collected in 1860.

At the Cave & Basin Natural Historic Site, we weren’t sure what to expect. The first building you walk to is a gift shop, then you have to walk up a hill to the main site. Unless they have an area for handicapped people to drive to, I don’t know how they get there. When you walk in the main building, you smell the sulfur smell from the water in the cave.  It’s a small cave, room enough for maybe 10 people.  The rest of the area is large with pictures and information panels throughout. Behind this building is a small building for the Internment Camp display. Without a map, it’s kind of hard to find your way around the whole area.

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