CABIN CAPITAL OF CANADA

Quintessentially Canadian and oh-so-cozy, Jasper’s love for cabin living is inextricably entwined with the national park’s history. Always evolving, modern accommodations pair heritage charm with polished comforts and have helped to make this place the self-proclaimed cabin capital of Canada.

At their most basic, cabins are shelter. In Jasper, a wilderness of magnificent proportions, that core function was historically the priority. But over time the cabin lifestyle came to symbolize much more: a blissful escape from convention, where modern day stresses are left on the highway.

Consider Lewis Swift, Jasper’s first game and fire guardian, who married Métis woman and celebrated embroiderer Suzette Swift and set up a cabin homestead near Pyramid Mountain that catered to Jasper’s first tourists. Today, the site and buildings are dedicated to learning: the Palisades Stewardship Education Centre hosts school programs and is also used by Parks Canada's Indigenous Partners.

Jasper’s story is so woven with cabins that even its name is linked to them. Jasper Hawse was a former operator of a local trading post (which also eventually took his name, becoming Jasper House). Though the structure’s wooden materials were eventually repurposed by settlers and railroad workers, the meadow where it sat remains a National Historic Site.

Cabins are everywhere in Jasper National Park. Some, like the luxurious chalets at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, have been retrofitted and modernized. Others are sprinkled through the backcountry, long abandoned and quietly disintegrating back into the landscape.

But whether you seek an isolated and cozy riverside cabin to call your own, or a multi-bedroom log refuge that British royalty have stayed in, there is a homeaway-from-home that’s waiting for you in Jasper National Park. After all, the outdoor aesthetic may have been adopted into the mainstream imagination, but nowhere is cabin culture more original, authentic and treasured than in the Canadian Rockies.

Top Cabins

Tekarra Lodge

On a ridge overlooking the confluence of the Miette and Athabasca rivers.

Bear Hill Lodge

The only cabins located right in town. Open yearround.

Miette Mountain Cabins

Quiet location on the east side of the park. Open year-round.

Patricia Lake

Bungalows

Secluded forest setting beside beautiful Patricia Lake.

Jasper East Cabins

Located by Folding Mountain near park border.

Fairmont Jasper Park

Lodge

Luxury mountain resort on 700 acres. Open yearround.

Pyramid Lake Lodge Chalet-style resort on a lakeside terraced hillside.

Overlander Mountain Lodge

Overlooks the eastern mountain ranges. Open year-round.

Sunwapta Falls Rocky Mountain Lodge

Located on the Icefields Parkway, nearby a waterfall.

Pine Bungalows

Next to the Athabasca River. New 10-person cabins opening fall 2023.

Alpine Village Cabin Resort

Range of upscale, custom-designed options and quaint, heritage cabins.