Visit Waterton Lakes in the summer, and the best place to stay (and likely, the most expensive) is the Prince of Wales Hotel. This grand old railroad hotel was constructed in 1926-27, to lure tourists to the area. Other Canadian towns received similar hotels — like the Banff Springs and Chateau Lake Louise — but the Prince of Wales Hotel was the only Canadian property to be built by an American railroad (the Great Northern Railroad). If you visit in the wintertime, you won’t be staying at the Prince of Wales Hotel. In fact, you won’t stay there in spring […]