Debra Smith Covering 89 square miles on the northern edge of Banff National Park, the Columbia Icefield is the largest body of ice in the Canadian Rockies. It's a bit of a drive from Banff Town ...

You can even stand at the foot of the great Athabasca Glacier, which feels vast but is really just one of the six “toes” of the Columbia Icefield, the largest icefield in the Rocky Mountains.