Manitoba Road Trips — Tested Routes With Real Details

Every trip here is one we took ourselves. Real distances, real costs, real stops — and honest notes on what was worth it.

Winnipeg to Banff: An Honest 4-Day Rocky Mountains Road Trip

A 2 a.m. start, a long prairie haul, and then the impossibly blue lakes of the Rockies. Here's our honest 4-day Winnipeg-to-Banff road trip — and everything you need to do it yourself.

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Bohdan Dryhval

Reynolds Ponds: What It’s Really Like to Drive In (Twice)

Reynolds Ponds is one of Manitoba's worst-kept secrets — impossibly blue quarry water at the end of a punishing gravel road. Here's what two visits taught us.

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Bohdan Dryhval

Pinawa: The Bridge, the Channel and a Wrong Turn at Seven Sisters

We finally caught one dry, sunny day between weeks of rain and drove out to Pinawa: a bridge, a channel loop, a few too many ticks, and a hydro station where we'd expected a waterfall.