YOHO NATIONAL PARK AND VICINITY - Canadian Rockies: Including Banff and Jasper National Parks - page 302

ous as smoked Alaskan salmon tiramisu and as simple as Albertan-raised beef served with
baby potatoes and grilled tomato.
Overlooking an arm of Emerald Lake, M Cilantro on the Lake (250/343-6321,
11am-9pm daily mid-June-Sept., $25-39) is a casual café featuring magnificent views from
tables inside an open-fronted, log chalet-style building or out on the lakefront deck. The
menu is varied—you can sit and sip a coffee or have a full lunch or dinner. Starters—such
as thick and creamy corn and potato chowder—are all less than $12, while mains range
to $39. The café is part of Emerald Lake Lodge, which also includes a more formal but
historically attractive dining room where dinner dishes such as grilled caribou with rasp-
berry black pepper sauce ($36) are served daily from 6pm. This restaurant is also open
year-round for breakfast and lunch, or choose the more casual lounge bar and sink into one
of the comfy couches with an abbreviated but still appealing menu.
INFORMATION
The main source of information about the park is the Field Visitor Centre on the
TransCanada Highway at Field (250/343-6783, 9am-8pm daily in summer, 9am-4pm daily
the rest of the year). Inside you'll find helpful staff, information boards, interpretive pan-
els, and a Friends of Yoho bookstore. This is also the place to pick up backcountry camp-
ing permits, buy topographical maps, and find out schedules for campground interpretive
programs. For more information, write Yoho National Park, P.O. Box 99, Field, BC V0A
1G0; or surf the Internet to the Parks Canada website ( www.pc.gc.ca ) . For park road con-
ditions, call 403/762-1450; for avalanche reports, call 403/762-1460.
GETTING THERE AND AROUND
Transportation to and around the park is limited. Most visitors arrive in their own vehicles,
allowing just over an hour to travel between the town of Banff and the village of Field
along the TransCanada Highway. Greyhound (403/762-6767, www.greyhound.ca ) stops
in Field daily on its route between Banff and Golden, from where it continues west to Van-
couver. Brewster (403/762-6767, www.brewster.ca ) offers a nine-hour Mountain Lakes
and Waterfalls Tour of the park, departing Banff daily at 8:30am (summer only). This tour
takes in both the Yoho Valley and Emerald Lake, as well as Lake Louise. The cost is adult
$109, child $55.