Jasper
Jasper is a town of about 5,200 people in Jasper National Park in the Alberta Rockies region. It is a small tourist town that serves as a base for exploring the park, and for outdoor sports such as skiing, hiking, climbing, canyoning, rafting, canoeing, golfing and fat biking.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ryanshepherd, Public domain.
Photo: Sanchom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 4,590 residents
- Description: municipality in Alberta, Canada
- Also known as: “Jasper, AB”, “Jasper, Alb.”, “Jasper, Alberta”, “Jasper, Alta.”, and “Municipality of Jasper”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jasper Park Information Centre and Jasper Railway Station.
Jasper Park Information Centre
Tourism office
Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Jasper Park Information Centre National Historic Site, located in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada, is the primary visitor contact centre for visitors to the park.
Jasper Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0.
Jasper station is on the Canadian National Railway mainline in Jasper, Alberta. The station is served by Via Rail's The Canadian and is the eastern terminus for the Via Rail's Jasper – Prince Rupert train.
Jasper
- Categories: specialized municipality in Alberta and locality
- Location: Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.8752° or 52° 52′ 31″ northLongitude
-118.0824° or 118° 4′ 57″ westPopulation
4,590Elevation
1,062 metres (3,484 feet)IATA airport code
YJAOpen location code
9543VWG9+32OpenStreetMap ID
node 51971014OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Jasper” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جاسبر”
- Basque: “Jasper”
- Belarusian: “Джаспер”
- Catalan: “Jasper”
- Chinese: “賈斯珀”
- Chinese: “贾斯珀”
- Danish: “Jasper (Canada)”
- Danish: “Jasper”
- Dutch: “Jasper (Canada)”
- Dutch: “Jasper”
- Esperanto: “Jasper”
- Esperanto: “Jaspero”
- Finnish: “Jasper”
- French: “Jasper”
- Galician: “Jasper, Alberta”
- Galician: “Jasper”
- German: “Jasper’s House”
- German: “Jasper”
- Greek: “Τζάσπερ”
- Icelandic: “Jasper (bær)”
- Icelandic: “Jasper”
- Irish: “Jasper, Alberta”
- Irish: “Jasper”
- Italian: “Jasper”
- Japanese: “ジャスパー”
- Korean: “재스퍼”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jasper”
- Norwegian: “Jasper”
- Persian: “جاسپر، آلبرتا”
- Persian: “جاسپر”
- Polish: “Jasper (Kanada)”
- Polish: “Jasper”
- Portuguese: “Jasper”
- Romanian: “Jasper, Alberta”
- Romanian: “Jasper”
- Russian: “Джаспер”
- Serbian: “Džasper”
- Serbian: “Џаспер”
- Slovenian: “Jasper”
- Spanish: “Jasper”
- Spanish: “municipio de Alberta”
- Ukrainian: “Джаспер”
- Urdu: “جسپر، البرٹا”
- Urdu: “جسپر”
- Urdu: “جیسپر، البرٹا”
- Western Panjabi: “جیسپر، البرٹا”
- Western Panjabi: “جیسپر”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Jasper”. Photo: Sanchom, CC BY-SA 3.0.