Originally Posted by
Happy Feet
5. Icefields Parkway is awesome but again, a long detour from Jasper to Banff to Calgary to Edmonton on a cross Canada tour. That's the only downside but if you are leaving early look at weather reports. An alternate may be turning east at Saskatchewan crossing through Rocky Mt. House and heading north to Edmonton from there.
I would recommend the Icefields Parkway, but it is a long way back up to Edmonton. If you don't have a compelling reason to go there, I would angle up through Drumheller and towards Saskatoon that way.