Private Tour
Self-Guided Audio Tours for the Canadian Rockies
Overview
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Don't miss a thing as GuideAlong's Canadian Rockies Audio Tour takes you on an incredible journey through craggy mountains, sparkling lakes, and ancient glaciers. Along the way, you'll be guided to all of the area's famous highlights while you spot wildlife along with the world's most scenic drives.
This self-guided audio tour helps you discover more on your road trip with fascinating behind-the-scenes stories, local tips, and directions that play automatically along the drive.
Enjoy the freedom to explore offline at your own pace so you can spend more time at places that interest you, and bypass any that don’t.
Buy once, use forever! No expiry, includes free updates.
Additional Info
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How to Access: After booking you’ll receive an email and text with instructions (search “Download Audio Tour”). Click the link in the email/text to sign in with your preferred Apple or Google account and redeem your voucher code ahead of time.
Download The GuideAlong App: Download the free app over WiFi or cellular data and sign in with the same Apple or Google account.
Download The Tour: Download the tour in the GuideAlong app under 'My Tours' over WiFi or cellular data.
Start The Tour: Open the tour in the GuideAlong app to preview the start locations, tour route and trip planner, or start the tour.
Location-Based Stories: Audio commentary plays automatically as you drive using your phone’s GPS chip. Wherever you are and whichever direction you’re going, you’ll hear the best stories and tips.
Flexible Travel Date: Tours are a one-time purchase with no expiry or date/time limit. If your plans change to a different day, there’s no need to change your travel date.
Tour at Your Leisure: With GuideAlong, you control the pace. Start, stop, and resume the tour any day, anytime, adapting it to your schedule.
Driving Tours: Group Savings: One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle, making it a cost-effective way to explore.
Works Offline: No internet or cell service is required once the audio tour is downloaded to your phone, so you can relax and tour offline.
Bring A Charger: Pack a USB/C car charger for charging and easy sound connectivity, and make sure your device is fully charged.
Bring Earbuds/Headphones: Bring earbuds to continue listening to driving tours on park shuttles and conveniently listen to walking tours.
Technical Support: The GuideAlong support team is available daily by toll-free phone, online chat, and email.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What‘s Included
Support: Toll free phone, chat and email
Easy To Use: Pre-download and tour offline
Trip Planners: In-app, web and PDF
Location Based: Stories, tips & directions that autoplay
Buy once, use forever! No expiry, includes free updates
GuideAlong (GyPSy Guide) Audio Tour: 520 Points
Flexible Routes: Suggested itineraries or create your own
National Park Passes
Attractions (Banff Gondola, Hot Springs, Cave & Basin) ticket prices vary.
Banff Upper Hot Springs
Cave and Basin National Historic Site
What To Expect
One of the classic experiences in Banff is to take the gondola ride to the top of Sulphur Mountain, where you can take in 360-degree mountaintop views across six ranges. Follow the boardwalks that lead to the Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station. You may even see some bighorn sheep alongside the boardwalks. Enjoy the new bistro, coffee, and market-style dining while you watch the sunset.
Bow Falls
Located on the Bow River in Banff near the Banff Springs Hotel, just before the confluence of the Spray River. Water levels will dramatically change throughout the year, especially during the spring thaw. A small car park and trail lead to a higher viewing area. The view of Bow Falls was the clincher in determining the site to build the Banff Springs Hotel.
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Self-Guided Audio Tours for the Canadian Rockies
Reviews
18 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
This made our trip so much more interesting!
maria d,
Jul 28, 2025
- Viator
5.00The guide was so helpful and easy to use. It was like having your own private tour guide in the car.
Fantastic app, highly recommend!
Brennan B,
Oct 15, 2024
- Viator
5.00Icefields Parkway was amazing and so much better with the narration. So good for spotting features you would not recognise on your own
Felt like a live tour guide in our car with us
JB E,
Oct 7, 2024
- Viator
5.00We absolutely LOVED having this guide on our trip. So many interesting tips and facts that we would have otherwise missed. The narrator pointed out so much interesting history, geography, nature and even some funny stories. It truly kept us engaged and exploring even longer just to see everything that was mentioned. We went on and purchased another guide for SW Alberta & Waterton to continue our road trip because we enjoyed it so much.
This Guide made our trip!
Aaron K,
Sep 20, 2024
- Viator
5.00This ride along Guide made our trip! We downloaded the app and tour before we left home - we also got the free "Calgary to Banff" tour. So we just hooked our phone to the rental car (Bluetooth) before even leaving the airport, and just started driving. Our guide (who we started calling Tom) just starts talking when you approach a given point - like there's some wise and friendly buddy in the back seat the whole trip. He gave us no-nonsense directions to Banff so we didn't need to fiddle with gps. And out on the highway told us all about the sites we passed - giving us great details about the popular ones, and telling us about hidden gems we would have missed otherwise. He also filled the sometimes long drives between sites with history and lore. We had to do a lot of pivoting due to wildfires, weather, and tour companies. But Tom was always there to take us on another adventure along the road. He had sites along the main highway, along the less-traveled "back" way, and even all the way up on the Icefields parkway and into Yoho. And when we left the rental car and hiked, or took busses to some of the more crowded sites, we just brought along our phone with earbuds and Tom loaded up. He was full of useful and interesting tidbits wherever we went. Due to wildfires we couldn't drive north of the Saskatchewan River crossing. But we WERE able to open the app and hit each tour spot along the map by hand to hear Tom's commentary. It's not like the real thing, but it gave us some idea of what we weren't allowed to see in person. Since we'd downloaded the entire tour before we left, we never had a problem accessing it even where there was no phone signal. And when it was finally time to go home, Tom even gave us directions back to the Calgary airport. I really can't recommend this one enough!
The Best Choice!
Robert L,
Aug 24, 2024
- Viator
5.00Great narrator and great seamless connections between different Canadian Rockies segments. Better than other audio tours we have used!
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