Canada's outdoor geography is almost incomprehensibly varied: the Canadian Rockies around Banff and Jasper deliver mountain hiking, wildlife, and turquoise glacial lakes within the same morning; the Bay of Fundy coastline has the world's highest tidal range, making coastal walks a timed event; the boreal forest of Ontario stretches into canoe routes that can go for days without a road crossing. The Trans-Canada Trail is the world's longest recreational trail network. Wildlife encounters — moose on a forest road, orca off Vancouver Island, polar bears outside Churchill in autumn — are the kind that happen without arrangement. Some routes are made for photos, some for a proper day trip, and some are simply better with tours by locals who know the landscape beyond the obvious map pins. It really hits differently.