Castle Mountain
Castle Mountain is a mountain located within Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, approximately halfway between Banff and Lake Louise. It is the easternmost mountain of the Main Ranges in the Bow Valley and sits astride the Castle Mountain Fault which has thrust older sedimentary and metamorphic rocks forming the upper part of the mountain over the younger rocks forming its base.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kmf164, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Protection Mountain.
Protection Mountain
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Protection Mountain is a mountain in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Castle Junction.
Castle Junction
Locality
Castle Junction is a locality where the northern extent of the Banff–Windermere Highway intersects with the Trans-Canada Highway, the Bow River, and Bow Valley Parkway in Banff National Park, Alberta. Castle Junction is situated 7 km southeast of Castle Mountain.
Castle Mountain
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,766 metres
- Description: mountain in Alberta, Canada
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Improvement District No. 9, Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Latitude
51.32726° or 51° 19′ 38″ northLongitude
-115.96949° or 115° 58′ 10″ westElevation
2,766 metres (9,075 feet)Open location code
953682GJ+W6OpenStreetMap ID
node 3785435846OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Castle Mountain” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Castle Mountain (bukid sa Canada, Alberta)”
- Cebuano: “Castle Mountain”
- Chinese: “Castle Mountain”
- Chinese: “卡斯尔山”
- Chinese: “卡斯爾山”
- Chinese: “城堡山”
- Dutch: “Castle Mountain”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كاستل”
- French: “Castle Mountain”
- German: “Castle Mountain”
- Hebrew: “הר קאסל”
- Japanese: “キャッスルマウンテン”
- Ladin: “Castle Mountain”
- Russian: “Касл (гора)”
- Russian: “Касл”
- Spanish: “Castle Mountain”
- Spanish: “Montaña del Castillo”
- Swedish: “Castle Mountain (berg i Kanada, Alberta)”
- Swedish: “Castle Mountain, Alberta”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Stuart Knob and Helena Ridge.
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