Lake Minnewanka Picnic Spot
Lake Minnewanka Picnic Spot is a parking lot in Improvement District No. 9, Alberta and has an elevation of 1,478 metres. Lake Minnewanka Picnic Spot is situated nearby to the locality Anthracite.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bankhead.
Bankhead
Historic site
Photo: Radtek67, Public domain.
Bankhead, Alberta was a small coal mining town that existed in the early twentieth century, in Banff National Park, near the town of Banff, Alberta. The mine was located at Cascade Mountain, which contains high grade anthracite coal deposits. Bankhead is situated 3 km southwest of Lake Minnewanka Picnic Spot.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Anthracite and Banff.
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 6 km south of Lake Minnewanka Picnic Spot.
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.
Lake Minnewanka Picnic Spot
- Type: Parking lot
- Category: transportation
- Location: Improvement District No. 9, Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Latitude
51.24944° or 51° 14′ 58″ northLongitude
-115.49583° or 115° 29′ 45″ westElevation
1,478 metres (4,849 feet)Open location code
95366GX3+QMGeoNames ID
13680401
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