Improvement District No. 12, Canada
Yellowhead Hwy
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This place is often looked over. Stunning landscape photography tour. This place is by the busy highway. Most of the people just drive by. Personally think this deserves a bit more attention. The Jasper lake has some temporary lake features and the water comes down from the mountains. It can expand and disappear in a days. You get some of the best reflection photos ever here when there is no wind!
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The Jasper Lake Sand Dunes are a surprising and wonderful gem in the heart of Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. Despite being along the busy Yellowhead Highway, they tend to be overlooked as people fly on by towards the town of Jasper. This makes for a much quieter and less crowded experience than other attractions in this popular national park. The area is a diverse patchwork of barren sand dunes, grassland, forest and lake shore. The mountain and lake vistas are wide open and gorgeous here and the sand dune ripples make for an almost desert-like micro-climate in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. The area is one of the driest place in Canada between Drumheller, Kamloops and the arctic cold deserts due to the mountain rain/snow shadow. High peaks of the Rockies and Cariboo Mountains to the west/southwest block much of the inbound Pacific moisture. The Rocky Mountain Front Ranges block eastern upsloping storms and thunderstorms tend to form just east of the mountains. The Athabasca Valley is also situated in a linear form directly southwest to northeast here, which intensifies Chinook winds and warming, drying downsloping winds. The results are a very dry, sandy area that would be classified as officially semi-arid if average temperatures rise just a few degrees. Nevertheless, desert or not, the area is largely cloud free when surrounding mountains are not and the sand dunes make you feel like you are in a desert. It is an interesting and unexpected place to find in Jasper.
Amazing views in this part of Jasper NP. Only the too fast driving traffic on road 16 is not helping to give you a quiet experiance in this amazing nice National Park
Very Scenic nice place
Must visit, beautiful place
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