Canada's most popular attractions this summer

While in 2021 more than half of Canadians were not going anywhere for the summer, in 2022 those wanting to fly for vacation drove Canada's airports and passport service to collapse. The query "travel cancellation rules" is 210% more popular than last year, and queries related to travel insurance are 100% more popular. This gives hope that Canadians who urgently had to change plans because of flight cancellations aren't too upset.

There's a lot to see inside Canada, too. Here are the top 10 places of interest to tourists.

10. MarineLand, "Sea Wonderland" is a zoo in Niagara Falls, Ontario, next to Niagara Falls. The founder of the zoo was an immigrant from Slovenia who had worked in circuses in Europe. Sixty years ago, in 1961, he started with a pool where he put on shows with sea lions and dolphins.

What's out there:

• orca, beluga whales, dolphins, walruses, seals, harbor seals and penguins;
• performances with sea animals;
• areas where you can feed bears, deer, elk and buffalo;
• carp ponds;
• "Dragon Mountain," the largest non-stop roller coaster in the world (but not the longest), covers 121,406 square meters;
• the usual rides — merry-go-rounds, free-fall towers, Ferris wheel.

9. Glacier National Park is a reserve in the mountains of eastern British Columbia.

What's there:

• Rogers Pass, a national historic site where the Trans-Canada Railroad has run since 1886;
• museum of railroad history, avalanches and local nature;
• the theater;.
• from the lowlands to the peaks of the mountains: the taiga and cottonwood forests, firs, spruces, meadows of lupine and willow-herb, heath and sedge fields, lichens, glaciers;
• grizzly bears, ibex and caribou (reindeer), partridges, marmots, squirrels.

8. Jasper National Park, a nature preserve in the mountains Alberta.

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What's there:

• waterfalls;
• glaciers (and tours of them in special buses);
• hot springs;
• ski resort — 91 trails, 7 elevators, capable of carrying 12,000 skiers per hour.
• from the lowlands to the mountain peaks: pine, spruce, dogwood, fir, cranberry, heath, dwarf birch, glacier
• elk licking cars;
• black and brown bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars, wolverines, snow rams, elk, deer, mountain goats.

7. The Toronto Zoo is the largest zoo in Canada. It is home to more than 500 species of animals (over 5,000 individuals).

What's out there:

• seven zoogeographic regions: the Indo-Malaysian zone, Africa, America, the Tundra Way, Australasia, Eurasia, and Canada;
• educational water park;
• a contact zoo where children can interact with guinea pigs, skunks, and alpacas;
• the world's largest plains gorilla habitat;
• night tours.

6. The Canadian Rocky Mountains are home to Jasper and Banff Parks, which made the list.

What's out there:

• 5 national parks recognized as World Heritage Sites and 29 provincial parks;
• mount Robson (3,594 meters) and mount Columbia (3,747 meters);
• mountaineering camps;
• 10 ski resorts;
• glaciers;
• hot hydrogen sulfide springs;
• historical monuments — the passes and trading posts of the Canada-Pacific Railway;
• Canada's first oil well, drilled in 1902.

5. Banff National Park is Canada's oldest national park, opened in 1885 in the mountains of Alberta.

What's out there:

• Lake Louise (next item on the list);
• mount Forbes (3,612 meters);
• glaciers;
• hot hydrogen sulfide springs — originally a park made a small area around them;
• a memorial museum on the site of camps for immigrants interned during World War I from Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ukraine;
• ski resorts;
• city with a population of 9,386 people, historical and art museums and its own art and theater university (Banff Center for Art and Creativity);
• high mountain pines and spruces;
• brown bears, cougars, wolverines, wolves, moose, snow rams, and plains bison;
• wildlife crossings across the Trans-Canada Highway;
• the largest wolf research project in North America.

4. Lake Louise is a glacial lake in Banff Park. It is 2 kilometers long and about 500 meters wide.

What's out there:

• turquoise-colored water colored by glacial flour (rock particles);
• many small lakes and waterfalls around;
• hotels (the most famous, the ski resort Fairmont Chateau, illustrated below), tourist bases;
• rental of boats, mountain bikes, skates, snowmobiles, dogsleds and horses.

3. Ripley's Aquarium is an oceanarium in Toronto that is home to more than 450 species of marine life (about 20,000 specimens).

What's out there:

• canadian fish, crabs and octopuses;
• Rainbow Reef exhibit — fish from the Indo-Pacific region, a show with their feeding;
• a tunnel with a travaler inside the aquarium, where sharks, skate fish, sawfish and large sea turtles live;
• jellyfish;
• a separate aquarium with stingrays, a show with their feeding;
• "Discovery Center" — underwater viewing bubbles and a boat, a sensory pool where you can pet a shark or stingray under the supervision of staff;
• part of the life support systems of aquariums in the public domain.

2. Niagara Falls is the fastest and most powerful waterfall in North America. The Niagara River, flowing into Lake Ontario, forms three waterfalls, the largest of which, the Horseshoe, is located in Canada. It is 57 meters high and 790 meters wide. The part farther away from the photographer in the illustration is on the American shore.

What's out there:

• greenish water colored by salts and glacial flour;
• hydroelectric power plant;
• wreckage of a metal barge and a wooden barge stranded on the shoals in front of the falls in 1918 and 1923 (the former was relatively intact until the spring of 2022);
• two reserves, one on the Canadian side and one on the American side;
• backlighting at night (pictured below);
• observation tower on the American side, observation tower and platforms on the Canadian side;
• cruises to the rapids above the waterfall;
• helicopter tours;
• cableway over the waterfall;
• Museum of the History of the Falls;
• walking trail through historical sites of the War of 1812 between Great Britain and the United States;
• casino;
• hotels.

The barge mentioned above, in 1922:

1. Canada's Wonderland is the largest amusement park in Canada, located in Ontario. Over 200 rides divided into eight themed zones.

What's out there:

• 17 roller coasters (the second largest in the world);
• the largest freefall swing in the world (46.7 meter drop);
• water park (water slide from there in the photo below) with 16 slides and the largest wave pool in Canada;
• kart racing track;
• street at the entrance with souvenir stores and cafes;
• an open-air concert hall for 15,000 seats;
• regular festivals in honor of Canada Day, Halloween, Christmas, and other holidays.