About an hour-and-a-half from the Calgary airport, Banff National Park, arguably one of the most beautiful places in the world, merits at least a daytrip.
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But Whistler makes for a long, expensive and potentially stressful daytrip, especially on dark winter evenings when the winding Sea-to-Sky Highway can be tricky to negotiate in a car.