Back from skiing in Banff, wow, no crowds and not very expensive. Very cool to walk all the way across Lake Louise. Can't imagine in the Summer that they get 15,000 visitors a day. Easy flight from Dallas and about 1.5 hours from Calgary airport. We stayed at a large condo in Downtown Calgary, but rooms could be had pretty cheap in Banff, Chateau Lake Louise was $220 Cdn, but we opted to drive back to town.