Robert VanderLee sent me a couple of photos he took in 2007 of the Elizabeth Parker Hut in Yoho National Park, British Columbia. This hut is one the most popular in the area each winter. It can be easily reached via cross country skis.
The main cabin is very spacious and has a propane system for cooking and lighting. It also has an efficient wood stove to keep it cozy and warm. You can learn more about the facility here: http://www.alpineclubofcanada.ca/facility/ep.html
Thank you Robert for sharing these wonderful photos. It looks like a great place to visit and stay.
Photo Credits Robert VanderLee
That’s a beautiful cabin. I wonder how large it is. I looked it up and didn’t see any mention of square footage (I didn’t spend too much time digging though), but I read that it sleeps 24!
Incidentally, your link to the site doesn’t work – looks like you left the final “l” out of your link, so it ends in “.htm” rather than “.html”.
Thanks Josh, I’ll correct that link. I’ll see if I can find out the size too.
I am not having any luck tracking down size. The best article I found was here, it seems to tells the most about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Parker_hut
only sleeps 20 in the winter. My best guess is that it is somewhere along the lines of 20’x20′ (for the main cabin (which sleeps 16 or less) and people sleep on the benches lining the wall in the living/dining room.
Love it. Sooo picturesque!
What a gorgeous cabin! British Columbia is too cold for my blood, though; just looking at that picture makes me shiver.
It’s very nice and I’d love to spend a few days there if I could, but I’m really a warm weather soul. it reminds me of a backpacking trip in January many years ago along Lake Superior…very pretty, but been there, done that !!
@ joe3: In my experience Yoho sure feels warmer in winter than Lake Superior in summer (north shore anyways) (it’s not though). 🙂
I can’t believe anyone has backpacked Lake Superior in winter… that makes me shiver and I’m living up here in Edmonton… 🙂
In my relatively short life experience – the beauty of the north makes up for cold. There is nothing like it. People are much more community-minded and interdependent (read friendly and humble) in these northern climes.
It just needs to be warm enough for me to grow my vegetables and raise my sheep. 🙂
Yoho is not in the north by any stretch of the imagination, being not too far above the US border. It just makes up in elevation what it lacks in latitude. I’ve lived on the north shore of Lake Superior, in Edmonton, in the southern Yukon, northern and southern NWT and Eastern Arctic, now living in SW BC. This part of BC is warm and soggy, classic Pacific NW. So when a person says BC is cold it makes me snicker a bit. Right now we have all sorts of bulbs pushing their way up through the ground and some cherry blossoms are already out on some of the Gulf Islands. There’s a wide variety of climate types in BC. http://www.britishcolumbia.com/information/details.asp?id=16