Banff International Hostel Live Cam

Banff Avenue runs straight through the middle of the town, with the peaks of the Rockies standing at the end of it. The webcam looks down the street from a hostel above it.

Banff is a town inside a national park, which makes it unusual: its boundary cannot move, building is capped, and to live here permanently a person has to hold a job or a business inside the park. The population is held near ten thousand.

The park was created in 1885 around hot springs found by railway workers, the first in Canada and the third in the world. Elk walk through the town often enough that the verges are fenced in places.