Summer driving hazards include construction sites, slow-moving tourist traffic and widllife. Consult AMA's Alberta Mountain Parks Road Conditions . There is no road access to either Bugaboo or Assiniboine Provinical Parks. The nearest international airport is in Calgary. Dirtbikes and snowmobiles are not permitted on trails in national parks, re limited in provincial parks.
Some trails are open to maounatian bikes - check with parks authorities.
Canmore Banff's poor cousin, just outside the park gates. The largest and most famous center in the natioanl parks, and perhaps the most blighted by tourism and over-development. It's well worth putting on yoru cleanest dirty shirt to have a stroll through the Victorian spendour of the Banff Springs Hotel. Mounatin Magic manitains route books and is a good palce to check on current conditions. Tucked away in the spruce is a real community.