Kicking Horse Pass
Kicking Horse Pass is a high mountain pass across the Continental Divide of the Americas of the Canadian Rockies on the Alberta–British Columbia border, and lying within Yoho and Banff national parks.- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 1,638 metres
- Description: mountain pass
- Also known as: “col Kicking Horse”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lake Louise.
Kicking Horse Pass
- Categories: rail mountain pass, mountain pass, and landform
- Location: Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.45336° or 51° 27′ 12″ north
Longitude
-116.28635° or 116° 17′ 11″ west
Elevation
1,638 metres (5,374 feet)
Open location code
9535FP37+8F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddle
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Urdu—“Kicking Horse Pass” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Kicking Horse Pass”
- Cebuano: “Kicking Horse Pass”
- Dutch: “Kicking Horse Pass”
- French: “col du Cheval-qui-Rue”
- French: “Col du Cheval-qui-rue”
- French: “Col du Cheval-qui-Rue”
- German: “Kicking Horse Pass”
- Hebrew: “מעבר קיקינג הורס”
- Japanese: “キッキングホース峠”
- Russian: “Кикинг-Хорс”
- Swedish: “Kicking Horse Pass”
- Ukrainian: “Кікінг-Горс”
- Urdu: “ککنگ ہارس پاس”
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Places to explore: Hector and Morant’s Curve.
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