Prior Peak

#1756 among destinations in Canada

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Facts and practical information

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. ()

Coordinates: 51°43'17"N, 116°55'49"W

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

Nearby attractions include: Mount Freshfield, Mount Barlow, Mount Bulyea, Mount Bergne.

1.6 miNW
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Mount Freshfield
42 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.
5.3 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Barlow, Banff National Park
135 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.
0.5 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Bulyea, Banff National Park
13 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.
3.9 miNE
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Mount Bergne
100 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.
5.4 miN
Mountain
Mount Garth
138 min walk • Mount Garth is a summit in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada located directly south of Coronation Mountain. Mount Garth was named in 1920 after John McDonald of Garth, a businessman in the fur industry.
2.8 miNW
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Mount Dent
73 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.
4.1 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Helmer, Banff National Park
104 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.
~1330 ftNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Pilkington, Banff National Park
7 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.
4.8 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Lambe, Banff National Park
123 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.
5.5 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Low, Banff National Park
142 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...
3.4 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Gilgit Mountain, Banff National Park
87 min walk • Gilgit Mountain is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia at the head of Waitabit Creek and NE of Golden. It was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie for Gilgit, Pakistan. Collie had accompanied Albert F.