View from highway Approaching Abraham Lake, Alberta. David Thompson Highway (Icefields Parkway to Red Deer) The David Thompson Highway, connecting Red Deer and the Banff/Jasper Highway, is one of the finest drives in Canada. A beautiful, not so busy, well maintained highway takes you to numerous campgrounds, three wilderness areas, dozens of wild rivers, clear lakes and waterfalls, David Thompson Country is an outdoor adventure. Fishing, hunting, swimming, boating, lazing on sunny beaches...your vacation can be as active or as relaxing as you wish.