About Canmore

Canmore is located in the heart of the Canadian Rockies, just 106 km west of Calgary on the Trans-Canada Highway, 5 min from Banff National Park east gate and 22 km east of Banff town site. Founded in 1883, Canmore was a simple coal-mining town until it was made famous for hosting the 1988 Nordic events of the Winter Olympic Games. Transforming the town into one of the most beautiful and charming tourism, health & wellness and outdoor activities destinations in the country. Canmore offers an abundance of recreational activities such as down hill and cross-country ski, snowshoeing, ice-skating, ice climbing and back country ski in winter and golf, hiking, scrambling, rock climbing, mountaineering, mountain biking, kayaking, rafting and canoeing during the summers. There is also endless number of art galleries, boutiques, local coffee shops, bakeries, bookstores, liquor store, more than 70 restaurants, spas, trails, charming inns, bed & breakfasts, and activity centres. Making Canmore the home that feels like a never-ending vacation.