For a road journey across Canada, fall is a magnificent season. Get your hiking boots and binoculars ready, and head outside to admire Mother Nature at her best. Here are our top reasons to come to Canada this autumn.
The Hues Of Autumn – Most Beautiful Season In Canada
Autumn in Canada is dubbed the “leaf-peeping” season for a good cause. It’s among the best spots on Earth to view the leaves change from green to blazing reds, oranges, and yellows. Everywhere you travel, the trees lining the sides of the roads will be putting on a stunning display, and the forest canopies will be ablaze with beautiful colors. Grab your passport, board a plane, and go leaf-peeping—one it’s of nature’s most amazing natural phenomena! This is definitely the main reason to come to Canada in fall 2022.
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Peak Grizzly Bear Season
Autumn in Western Canada is the best season to go bear-spotting. Before winter sets in, grizzlies, black bears, and rare spirit bears all take advantage of “The Great Fall Feast.” They are easy to locate since the salmon runs attract them to the rivers where they are looking for food. They consume a lot of food and drink during the fall and try to gain as much weight as they can before going into hibernation.
The Great Bear Rainforest’s rare Kermode, or “spirit,” bear, with its eye-catching white fur, is most often seen in the autumn. Considering that there are supposed to be only 400 Kermode bears left in the world at this time, seeing one in the wild is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
The Run Of Salmon – Only In Autumn Canada
On the rivers of British Columbia, one of the biggest salmon runs in the world occurs in the fall, and it is truly amazing to see. Numerous thousands of salmon return to their home streams to spawn, some of which can grow to be 5 feet long. The bears are drawn to the riverbanks by the salmon flow, where you can see them forage in the shallows. Golden and bald eagles circle overhead at the same moment, attempting to join the battle. It’s one of nature’s most amazing phenomena, and witnessing it firsthand is an experience of a lifetime.
A Flurry Of Bird-Watching
Countless turkey vultures, hawks, falcons, kestrels, harriers, ospreys, and eagles congregate in East Sooke Park on Vancouver Island beginning in mid-September before flying across the Juan de Fuca Strait. Sandhill cranes depart the Cariboo Mountains in large numbers, Sooty shearwaters fly south to New Zealand, and Williamson’s sapsuckers flee the Canadian desert. Additionally, 7,000 bald eagles have been observed to congregate at the salmon run at once! If you are a nature-lover, this would be a good reason to come to Canada in fall.
Autumn Aurora
The Northern Lights are not just visible in Canada during the winter. There are a number of locations during the autumn when you have a very excellent chance of seeing the aurora. Some of the best places to observe the Northern Lights in autumn include Banff National Park, Ontario, the Yukon, and Elk Island National Park in Alberta. Stay at a backcountry lodge, enjoy the fall foliage throughout the day, and witness the nighttime sky’s kaleidoscope of color. Nothing else compares to it.
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A Lot Of Festivals In Fall Canada
Autumn in Canada is known as the season of plenty and is marked by regional harvest celebrations. There is always some sort of celebration of the bounty of the fall happening somewhere. Prince Edward Island, in Nova Scotia, stages its International Shellfish Festival, Prince Edward County in Ontario holds its annual Pumpkinfest and Winona, between Toronto and Niagara, puts on a great Peach Festival.
The Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, which is the country’s largest wine-producing region, especially, hosts 60 events over ten days in October to commemorate the grape harvest. Beginning on the other side of the nation is the Niagara Grape & Wine Festival. It is a good reason to come to Canada in fall 2022!
Easy Through The Crowds
In Canada, autumn is frequently considered off-season. Since the children have returned to school, there is less domestic travel and less noise at the campgrounds. The majority of foreign visitors to Canada also come during the summer, so October is much more sedate. With mild sunshine and fewer tourists, it’s a perfect season to go through Canada and experience the wilderness up close.
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