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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Take the detour south at Medicine Hat on HW41. Elkwater is your town for supplies and a nice lake. Continue south to TWP74 (there are a few options heading east), easy enough to figure out and get to Ft Walsh which has some good hiking trails where we saw lots of wildlife like moose and deer. Place has a some interesting dark history(massacre) if you have time for the visitor centre, worth doing before you hit the trials so you know where the blood piles are.
We were staying in Elkwater so headed back there, but I'm sure there is more neat stuff heading back up to the TCH. Really cool area. Oh, I'd try to time it for mid-week, Elkwater gets a bit busy on weekends and it is so nice when no one is around.
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This is good advice. If you were wanting to stay south of Calgary, you could take the Crowsnest Highway (Highway 3) all the way to Vancouver and come back on the TCH.
If you really wanted to do a huge loop though BC, you could head north out of Vancouver on 99 and hit Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton, Lillooet and meet up with the TCH at Kamloops (technically Cache Creek).
I've done all of that and the scenery is incredible.