Reaching it involves a six-mile hike through the picturesque scenery of Yoho National Park—Takakkaw Falls, Emerald Lake, and glaciers and glacier-cut mountain peaks thrusting into view at almost every turn. In this ecologically diverse setting, hikers have a chance of spotting squirrels, marmots, deer, moose, elk, wolves, and mountain goats. Rare sightings might include a grizzly bear or Canadian lynx, while alert birdwatchers might glimpse a horned lark, a white-tailed ptarmigan, the rare water pipit, or a gray-crowned rosy finch; an eagle, hawk, or grassland falcon; dippers, jays, migrating
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