VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Rocky Mountaineer has announced a limited-run trip through Canada’s Banff and Jasper national parks to be offered for four weeks in summer 2026.
The “Passage to the Peaks” service will feature two days of viewing the parks with an overnight stay in Kamloops, B.C. It will offered beginning June 10 from Banff; other departures from Banff will be June 14, 18, 24, 28, and July 2 and 8; departures from Jasper are scheduled for June 12, 16, 22, 26, 30, and July 6 and 10. More information is available here. Prices start from Ca$2,834 per person; the trip is also available as part of Rocky Mountaineer vacation packages of up to 10 days.
The company will continue to offer its “First Passage to the West,” between Vancouver and Banff, and “Journey Through the Clouds” (Vancouver-Jasper) on a reduced schedule during this period.
The new service comes at a time when the future of another Rocky Mountaineer offering, the three-day “Rainforest to Gold Rush” trip between North Vancouver and Jasper, is in doubt because of Canadian National Railway plans to end operations on more than 200 miles of the route [see “CN seeks to end lease …,” Trains.com, July 22, 2025]. The Rainforest to Gold Rush operation will continue through 2026, but the company has yet to determine the long-term impact of CN’s plans.
