This year is Canada's 150th Birthday! So Parks Canada is allowing free access into all the National Parks. This is a great time for you to explore the parks in your area and maybe find that one place you and your family really want to go to again and again! So here are five of the parks I am planning to visit this year! Banff National Park: This is a quick journey from my house in relation to National Parks. It's probably the second closest at a short 2 and half hour drive. I always go visit the townsite in Banff but this year I'd like to go visit some of the other areas and maybe do some of the easier hikes with the boys. Elk Island National Park : I have never been to this one, but I have passed it countless times when I used to drive to Edmonton. It has or is close to a Ukrainian Village that I think would be really cool to take the kids too, this is definitely one of my summer destinations. Jasper National Park : This one i...