Jasper
Jasper is a town of about 4,700 people (2021) in Jasper National Park in the Alberta Rockies region. It is a small tourist town that serves as a base for exploring the park, and for outdoor sports such as skiing, hiking, climbing, canyoning, rafting, canoeing, golfing and fat biking. Wikivoyage
Population 4,738 (Wikidata)
Before you go
Emergency numbers in Canada
- January: 8 h 09 of daylight
- February: 9 h 54 of daylight
- March: 11 h 49 of daylight
- April: 13 h 57 of daylight
- May: 15 h 48 of daylight
- June: 16 h 52 of daylight
- July: 16 h 25 of daylight
- August: 14 h 46 of daylight
- September: 12 h 42 of daylight
- October: 10 h 39 of daylight
- November: 8 h 43 of daylight
- December: 7 h 37 of daylight
Getting there
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Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide
Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.
Through the year
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Jasper Pride
April
Jasper's LGBT Pride festival is held in late April, so you can do some spring skiing in between parties and other events
1 event here has no dates for this year yet. We can look them up on each event's own site.
Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Jasper); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.
Eating nearby
All 19 places to eatSomewhere to run
Getting around
Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 17 October 2026. Description from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.