More than 200km north of Lake Louise in Jasper National Park, it has a very different look to its castellated siblings.

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Such are the perils of staying at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, nestled smack dab in the middle of Canada's vast Jasper National Park .

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To experience the best leg of Via's cross-country service, take the Snow Train, which runs from Vancouver's grand beaux arts railroad station through a series of stunning snowbound mountain ranges to the hamlet of Jasper in the middle of 4, 200-square-mile Jasper National Park (home to some of the world's best, least-crowded skiing, at Marmot Basin).

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Jasper town is nestled in the middle of the national park, where icy glaciers tumble down towering rocky peaks and melt to form wild, white water-choked rivers that cut through pine-filled valleys.

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