Sulphur Mountain
Sulphur Mountain is a mountain in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains overlooking the town of Banff, Alberta, Canada. The mountain was named in 1916 for the hot springs on its lower slopes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station and The Rimrock Resort Hotel.
Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station
Photo: Cshort, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station, a National Historic Site of Canada found atop Sulphur Mountain in Banff National Park, commemorates Canada's participation in the International Geophysical Year, during 1957 to 1958.
The Rimrock Resort Hotel
Hotel
The Rimrock Resort Hotel is a hotel in Banff, Alberta, Canada, on the slope of Sulphur Mountain, within Banff National Park. It has 346 rooms and 21 suites, two restaurants, two lounges and a coffee shop.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Banff and Anthracite.
Banff
Photo: Audree, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The town of Banff in Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies, is the larger of the two populated areas in Banff National Park, about an hour and a half drive west of Calgary and four hours south of Jasper.
Anthracite
Locality
Anthracite is a ghost town located within Banff National Park in southern Alberta, Canada. It is named after the anthracite variety of coal. Anthracite is situated 9 km northeast of Sulphur Mountain.
Sulphur Mountain
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,451 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
51.12362° or 51° 7′ 25″ northLongitude
-115.55503° or 115° 33′ 18″ westElevation
2,451 metres (8,041 feet)Open location code
95364CFV+CXOpenStreetMap ID
node 2687647516OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Sulphur Mountain” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل الكبريت (ألبرتا)”
- Arabic: “جبل الكبريت”
- Cebuano: “Sulphur Mountain (bukid sa Canada)”
- Cebuano: “Sulphur Mountain”
- Chinese: “硫磺山”
- Dutch: “Sulphur Mountain”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل سولفور”
- French: “mont Sulphur”
- French: “Mont Sulphur”
- German: “Sulphur Mountain”
- Ladin: “Sulphur Mountain”
- Romanian: “Sulphur Mountain”
- Russian: “Салфер (гора, Альберта)”
- Russian: “Салфер”
- Swedish: “Sulphur Mountain (berg i Kanada)”
- Swedish: “Sulphur Mountain”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include 2240 and Banff Upper Hot Springs.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sulphur Mountain”. Photo: Yo Hibino, CC BY 2.0.