Guided Backpacking Trips in Canada
Are you looking for a multi-day backpacking and hiking trip this summer?
Join the Fresh Adventures team on the ultimate wilderness experience…. backpacking tours in the most beautiful and natural places in Canada.
Why go backpacking? Simple! Venturing deep into the backcountry takes you to those wild gems that are hard to reach without staying in the backcountry. Backcountry trips can be hard to plan, so our professional guides make it easy by planning everything to a tee, so all you need to do is rock up with your boots on!
Explore deep in the mountains with a small group of like minded people, who become new friends and share memories to last a lifetime on your adventure!
We provide all the gear, transportation, park permits, reservations, planning and send our best guides to make sure you are well taken care of and able to have the time of your life!
highlights of a backpacking tour
Small intimate groups
Mind blowing stars as you sleep directly under the Milky Way
Go deep in Canada’s most beautiful wilderness
Opportunity to see wildlife with no people around
Delicious backpacking food
Guided backpacking trips in the Canadian rockies
Canadian Rockies Guided Backpacking Trip
Join us on a backpacking trip of pure bliss through a mountain range in the Rockies. Well, technically it’s not the Rockies and it’s a bit of a secret place, but close enough. Trek over panoramic ridges, alpine lakes, lush meadows and see nothing but a skyline of jagged peaks and brilliant stars on this backpacking trip!
Rockwall Trail Guided Backpacking Tour
The Rockwall Trail is one of the best backpacking trips in Canada, venturing up and over a series of ridges and valleys with the impressive sheet rock face of the Rockwall towering above you. Finishing off at Floe Lake is one of the most beautiful sights in Canada and well worth the effort!
Berg Lake & Mt Robson Guided Hiking Trip
Berg Lake and Mt Robson are a classic backpacking trip in Canada. Join our guided trek to Berg Lake to see some of the most pristine Canadian mountain scenery, and come up close and personal with an epic glacier as it melts into the emerald colored lake below.
Guided Trek To Mount Assiniboine
Mount Assiniboine is known as the Matterhorn of Canada and makes for an incredible backpacking trip in the Rockies. Explore some of the most picturesque alpine lakes in Canada, with the impressive mountain towering above you every step of the way. This is a bucketlist backpacking trip in Canada!
Guided backpacking tours in Yukon
Tombstone Mountain Backpacking Trip
Tombstone Territorial Park is known as the “Patagonia of Canada”, getting it’s name from the jaw dropping Tombstone Mountain Range, which have an otherworldly appearance. Trek through pristine wilderness and camp on the shore of a few incredible lakes. The tundra brush allows you to see for miles!
What is a backpacking trip?
Backpacking is the ultimate form of hiking where you don’t have to be back at the parking lot by the end of the day. Imagine being able to wander into the wilderness exploring endless peaks, valleys and alpine lakes with nowhere to be but right where you are!
During our backpacking tours we carry everything on our backs so we have everything we need. When we reach somewhere too beautiful to leave we settle down and set up camp to enjoy ourselves in the ultimate beauty. Somedays we hike locally from our backcountry campsite and get up high for some otherworldly views, without having to carry everything with us. Other days we pack up our home in search of an even more beautiful one.
Backpacking tours are self sustained, human powered and immersive. They are the future of human interactions with the wild.
How fit do I need to be for a backcountry backpacking tour?
You will want to be fairly fit, but that’s not to say that you need to be a body builder or ultra-runner to come on our guided backpacking trips in Canada.
Your pack will weigh between 35 and 45 pounds, depending on how you pack and which backpacking tour you are on. Luckily the pack starts off heavy and gets lighter each day as you get stronger and the food gets eaten.
Expect to be walking and hiking for 4-7 hours each day. We do take lots of breaks and stop to admire the scenery and enjoy the journey. Since there are no distractions, it really doesn’t matter when we leave and arrive at camp, so the pace is quite reasonable.
What should I pack on a guided backcountry hike?
The short answer is everything you need and nothing that you don’t. The key is packing light and making everything you bring count when you need it. We will be including a more detailed packing list shortly.
Where do we sleep on backpacking trips in canada?
Wherever we want! Usually in the absolute best places you could possibly imagine. Have you ever found a secret little lake on Google Earth deep in the mountains that no one knows about? Well that’s exactly where you will be sleeping with your new posse on your guided backpacking trip in Canada!
Picture yourself set up beside an alpine lake, with views from your tent spanning out over mountain peaks as far as the eye can see. These mountainscapes are what get us through the week right?!
When is the best time to go backpacking in canada?
The best time to go backpacking in Canada is when it is warm and pleasant, which is also when we plan all our treks for. The last thing we want is being caught in a blizzard or wading through waist deep snow so we carefully plan our guided backcountry trips when hiking is at its best and you can truly enjoy. Think June through the end of September in a typical year. Of course it depends on the weather that week, day and minute so fingers crossed for some summer beauty!