Tourist attraction
Sunshine Meadows Viewing Deck
Wildflower-covered alpine shelf below the Continental Divide, reached by gondola above the treeline.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Sunshine Meadows above Banff follows the money behind the view, from Bill Peyto's paid trail rides in the eighteen nineties through a string of Calgary owners who leased, bought, and resold this shelf of wildflower slopes across the twentieth century. You will meet the Brewsters, George Encil, the White family, and the Scurfields, who still run the resort below the deck, and the businesses each of them built on it. It asks a simple question: who really profits from a view like this one. Listen from the deck railing, looking down at the lift lines threading the basin.
This audio guide was created using AI.