Mount Allen, Yoho National Park

Name: Mount Allen
Address: Yoho National Park, Canada

#43 among attractions in Yoho National Park

Natural attraction, Nature, Mountain

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Mount Allen is a mountain in the Canadian Rockies, located on the Continental Divide, which forms the provincial boundary between British Columbia and Alberta in this region. J. Monroe Thorington named this mountain for Samuel Evans Stokes Allen in 1924. Allen was an American cartographer who mapped this area of the Rockies in 1894-95. Allen had named this mountain "Shappee", the Stoney First Nations word for number 6 in reference to Allen's naming of the ten mountains in the Valley of the Ten Peaks. The peak forms part of the backdrop to Moraine Lake in Banff National Park. ()

First ascent: 1904Elevation: 10860 ftProminence: 853 ftCoordinates: 51°17'29"N, 116°13'12"W

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Mount Allen – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Tonsa, Deltaform Mountain, Mount Tuzo, Mount Perren.

1 miNE
Mountain
Tonsa
26 min walk • Tonsa, or Tonsa Peak, is a 3,053-metre mountain summit located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia on the Continental Divide in the Canadian Rockies. The mountain forms part of the backdrop to Moraine Lake in the Valley of the Ten Peaks of Banff National Park. It was named in 1894 by Samuel E.S.
1.3 miNW
Natural attraction, Nature, Mountain
Deltaform Mountain, Yoho National Park
35 min walk • Deltaform Mountain is one of the mountains in the Valley of the Ten Peaks, located on the Continental Divide on the border of British Columbia and Alberta, and also on the border between Banff and Kootenay National Parks in Canada.
0.8 miNW
Natural attraction, Nature, Mountain
Mount Tuzo, Yoho National Park
20 min walk • Mount Tuzo, previously "Peak Seven" or "Shagowa", was named in 1907 after its first ascendant Henrietta L. Tuzo. It is located within the Valley of the Ten Peaks in the Canadian Rockies, along the Continental Divide, which forms the boundary between British Columbia and Alberta in this region.
0.6 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Perren, Kootenay National Park
15 min walk • Mount Perren is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia on the Continental Divide. It was named in 1968 after Walter Perren, a Swiss climbing guide and Parks Canada service warden.