Waitabit Peak, Banff National Park

#135 among attractions in Banff National Park

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Waitabit Peak is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1900 after Waitabit Creek. ()

Elevation: 10197 ftProminence: 354 ftCoordinates: 51°42'12"N, 116°53'56"W

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Waitabit Peak – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Prior Peak, Mount Freshfield, Mount Barlow, Mount Bulyea.

1.8 miNW
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Prior Peak
47 min walk • Prior Peak is located at the head of Waitabit Creek on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1924 after Edward Prior, Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia from 1919-1920.
3.4 miNW
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Mount Freshfield
87 min walk • Mount Freshfield is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1897 by J. Norman Collie after Douglas Freshfield.
3.8 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Barlow, Banff National Park
98 min walk • Mount Barlow is located on the Continental Divide along the border of Alberta and British Columbia at the southern edge of the Freshfield Icefield in Banff National Park. It was named in 1916 by D.B. Dowling after Dr.
1.4 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Bulyea, Banff National Park
35 min walk • Mount Bulyea is located in Banff National Park on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1920 after Hon. George H. V. Bulyea, a Canadian Pacific Railway employee and first Lieutenant General of Alberta.
4.3 miN
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Mount Bergne
109 min walk • Mount Bergne is a summit in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. The mountain was named in memory of Frank Bergne, a mountain climber who had died in a climbing accident in 1907.
4.7 miNW
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Mount Dent
119 min walk • Mount Dent is a summit that straddles the border between British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. Mount Dent was named in 1899 by J. Norman Collie after Clinton Thomas Dent, an English mountaineer and past president of the UK Alpine Club.
6.2 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Conway, Banff National Park
158 min walk • Mount Conway is a mountain located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1901 by J. Norman Collie after Martin Conway, an alpinist.
2.6 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Helmer, Banff National Park
66 min walk • Mount Helmer is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia, East of Waitabit Creek and North of Golden. It was named in 1924 after Brigadier-General Richard Alexis Helmer and his son Alexis Helmer were killed in battle and was part of the inspiration for In Flanders Fields through his friendship with John McCrae.
1.8 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Pilkington, Banff National Park
47 min walk • Mount Pilkington is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia, between Mount Freshfield and Waitabit Peak. It was named in 1898 after Charles Pilkington.
4.1 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Lambe, Banff National Park
104 min walk • Mount Lambe is a 3,182-metre mountain summit located in the Canadian Rockies on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1918 after Lawrence Morris Lambe, a Canadian geologist, palaeontologist, and ecologist from the Geological Survey of Canada.
4.3 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Low, Banff National Park
110 min walk • Mount Low is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1920 after the Canadian geologist and explorer A. P...