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Circle Train Trips

Go there and back again

Canada is best explored by train. With so many routes throughout Canada we recommend turning your adventure into a circle trip. Ask your Canadian Insider how to combine train routes to discover more scenic regions, experience different train styles, and return to your starting city. We can personalize your Canadian vacation to suit you.

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What to expect from a Canadian circle train journey

Aerial view of downtown Vancouver and Canada Place facing west at sunset

Go full circle

Begin and and end your journey in the same city by looping one of our sample itineraries. Personalize your journey to meet your needs.

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Check two items off your bucketlist

Personalize your Canadian Rockies journey to include both the Rocky Mountaineer daylight service as well as VIA Rail’s sleeper train service by doing a circle route from Vancouver.

Rocky Mountaineer travelling past Castle Mountain in Banff on the First Passage to the West Route.

See it all on different routes

If you are finding it hard to pick which train route to take through the Rockies why not do them all? Combine multiple routes to create a circle trip through the Rockies.

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Round the bend on a roadtrip

Find out how to turn your dream road trip into a perfect loop.

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A Little Like Magic: Riding the Rocky Mountaineer in Spring

"All aboard!" It was hard not to feel excited with the station master’s call across the Rocky Mountaineer's Vancouver Station.

On the two-day First Passage to the West route, part of the Essential Rockies by Rail trip, we’d travel in the stress-free style of another era on the privately owned Canadian railway, enjoying excellent food and front-row seats on some of the country’s most spectacular scenery from reclining seats in a modern bi-level glass-dome coach

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