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The Haida Room: The wheelchair accessible main floor invites you to experience West Coast Indian Art featured in the Haida Room.
The Voyageur Room offers the colour and glory of the early Canadian fur trade and exploration.
The Kananaskis Room, decorated with prints of historic Canadian ships.
The Flower Room spotlights local flora.
The focus of the Canmore Room is local history and native craft.
The Emily Carr Room features one of Canada's most famous and eccentric artists
Grotto Suite: 600 square feet of living space - can accommodate 2 - 6 people. Perfect for families.
Grotto Suite: Full Kitchen facility complete with full size fridge, stove/oven, dishwasher & microwave, dishes, cooking ware
Three Sisters Suite: 600 square feet of living space - can accommodate 2 - 4 people. Perfect for families
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Many of us are awed
by spectacular places we visit. We take lots of effort to find the best accommodations, and are often disappointed by the outcome.
This could be due to many reasons such as quality of the rooms, the weather which does not always co-operate or perhaps the attitude of the staff.
Kiska House near Banff Lake Louise offers you a solution to this problem. It is an ideal place to stage your Canadian Rockies holiday. Book for a week, and use our property as your base to explore Banff National Park, Kananaskis Country, and Canmore.
Our Grotto and Three Sisters Suites are ideal for families and groups, offering full kitchens and private baths, as well as separate, secure entrances. These suites are available as extended stay accommodations, and are perfect for family and group winter ski trips.
Note: Kiska Inn is under new management as of Jan 1 2010. We are closed while we get things sorted out, and hope to reopen early February. As this site is also under construction, you may experience some dead links, however content is being added and updated daily. Please feel free to contact us in the meantime.
In the Rocky Mountains, ALL who visit are awed...
It was the summer of 1916. John Singer Sargent wrote a letter to his cousin Mary. "Two things here get on my nerves--one the roaring and hissing and pounding all night long of a tremendous waterfall that I am near, the other the alighting of snowflakes on my bottom when it is bared once a day. Perhaps this is the poetry of camping out."
An anonymous writer penned script from the exact spot at Lake O’Hara in the Canadian Rockies where Sargent did his complaining.He said, "I too have complaints: In this alpine hut 16 humans are required to sleep side by side 8 to a shelf. The odds that there are accomplished snorers among such a group are high, and these nights provide no exception. Another complaint is that canvases keep falling from my easel and landing face down on my palette. Poetry not mentioned in art school."
"But there’s another complaint that makes all other complaints trivial. It’s a complaint about myself. It’s that I have not taken the time to see enough places. It’s that I have not yet truly appreciated the diversity and complexity of our world. This spot is a pristine valley with shimmering, turquoise lakes, massive, snow-dressed mountains catching clouds and shards of light, spirited waterfalls and bubbling streams, ancient mossy rocks of tender and sophisticated colour, all held together in a mighty bowl in which one can inhale the volume. "
"What a privilege to be with creative and observant companions past and present. To see and share an environment where sheer power and the delicate flower beg to be studied and honored. To be surprised and delighted at every turn of a path. To flirt with the gods of the larch forest and the granite mountains. To be in a place where human understanding is submissive to impression. What a high it is to be an artist. What a responsibility. How natural. How tragic it might have been to pass this one up. My complaint is that I almost did." - Anon
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature. (Ansel Adams)
We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art. (Joseph Addison)
In nature there are few sharp lines. (A. R. Ammons)
