Burgess Pass

Burgess Pass is a mountain saddle in Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, British Columbia and has an elevation of 2,089 metres.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Burgess and Mount Field.

Mount Burgess

Peak

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Mount Burgess, 2,599 m, is a mountain in Yoho National Park and is part of the President Range in the Canadian Rockies. It is located in the southwest buttress of Burgess Pass in the Emerald River and Kicking Horse River Valleys.

Mount Field is a mountain located about 4 km northeast of the town of Field in Yoho National Park, Canada. The mountain was named in 1884 after Cyrus West Field, an American merchant who had laid the first Atlantic cable.

Walcott Quarry

Paleontological site

The Walcott Quarry is the most famous quarry of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, bearing the Phyllopod beds.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Field and Yoho National Park.

Field

Photo: Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Field is a cozy mountain village located in Yoho National Park within the Canadian Rockies in Canada. The town served as a base for workers on the Canadian Pacific Railway in its early days, and now hosts a small community of about 170, in addition to hosting the Yoho Park administration building and a number of quaint gift shops, restaurants, and small accommodations.

Yoho National Park

Photo: HylgeriaK, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Yoho National Park is British Columbia's sister to Alberta's Banff National Park, a world heritage site, on the western side of the continental divide that separates the two provinces.

Burgess Pass

Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 2,089 metres
Description: mountain pass in British Columbia, Canada
Categories: mountain pass and landform
Location: Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude

51.4302° or 51° 25′ 49″ north

Longitude

-116.48578° or 116° 29′ 9″ west

Elevation

2,089 metres (6,854 feet)

Open location code

9535CGJ7+3M

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3621015250

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=saddle

GeoNames ID

5911466

Wikidata ID

Q22610324

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Burgess Pass” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Burgess Pass”
Swedish: “Burgess Pass”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Walcott Peak and Walcott Quarry.

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