This is Canada's grand outdoor wonderland and it's served alongside a full menu of cool ever welcoming communities.

Deep sighs are the usual response when encountering this region, sparkling diorama of sawtooth peaks, ethereally colored lakes and crenelated coastlines whipped by dramatic ocean waves.

But it's the vast scale of this seemingly infinite wilderness that strikes most, triggering a humbled response in the face of nature's grand scheme.

Elk strut defiantly around the town's edge, nervous dear dart among the trees and giant bald eagles swoop overhead.

Jasper National Park's dramatic mountain setting is enough to keep most camera wielding visitors happy.

But the surfeit of wandering wildlife makes you feel like you're part of a nature documentary.

It's probably North America's finest urban park, but some Vancouver rides take it for granted.

They may have grown up thinking everyone has a 404 hectare temperate rainforest lined with hiking and biking trails on their doorstep, strolled the 8.8 kilometer wave like forest back seawall and you'll soon deplete your camera battery.

This picture postcard villages, frosted with icicles and teeming with chatty visitors during the winter season, but it's the slopes that are the main attraction whistler was the host for the 2010 winter olympic games and you can emulate your lycra clad heroes on some of North America's most popular downhill runs the islands off Bc's mainland wink at you whenever you get close to the shore line, but it's only when you take a short hop ferry that you realize how different life is here relive the days of the craggy faced frontier folk by canoeing from Whitehorse to Dawson City.

High season runs july through august in the spring and fall crowds and accommodation prices are reduced.

Travel costs in British Columbia can range from less than $100 Canadian $250 a day for boutique hotel and three course meal.

This is a vast region.

And while there are many transport options available, car travel is still the most popular way to get around beyond the cities.

Sawtooth Mountains, mist, shrouded forests and spine tingling wildlife sightings.

This is Canada's camera loving outdoor wonderland.

Be prepared to smile broadly and sigh deeply as your heart rate calms to hibernation levels.