Road Trips to Take in Summer
Every trip here is one we took ourselves. Real distances, real costs, real stops — and honest notes on what was worth it.
Province
Season
Travel Type
Activity
Duration
Budget
Leave Winnipeg at two on a Friday and 131 kilometres later you're in the water — with a hand-built suspension bridge four minutes down the road.
- 7 min read
- 2 August 2026
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Bohdan Dryhval
Our friends said Steep Rock wasn't worth it. We had to see for ourselves — and drove three hours to Manitoba's own little Mediterranean of limestone cliffs and turquoise water.
- 8 min read
- 11 July 2026
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Bohdan Dryhval
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.
- 16 min read
- 9 July 2026
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Bohdan Dryhval
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.
- 5 min read
- 23 July 2026
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Bohdan Dryhval
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.
- 6 min read
- 30 June 2026
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Bohdan Dryhval