Cascade Ponds
Cascade Ponds is a bus stop in Alberta, Prairies. Cascade Ponds is situated nearby to the military installation Banff Training Area, as well as near the scenic viewpoint Waterfall.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Banff Airport and Cascade Mountain.
Banff Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Shawn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Banff National Park is Canada's first national park, established in 1885 as Rocky Mountains Park. Located in Alberta's Rocky Mountains, 110–180 kilometres west of Calgary, Banff encompasses 6,641 square kilometres of mountainous terrain, with many glaciers and ice fields, dense coniferous forest, and alpine landscapes.
Cascade Mountain
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Cascade Mountain is a mountain located in the Bow River Valley of Banff National Park, adjacent to the town of Banff. The mountain was named in 1858 by James Hector after the waterfall or cascade on the southern flanks of the peak. Cascade Mountain is situated 2½ km northwest of Cascade Ponds.
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 2½ km northeast of Cascade Ponds.
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 3½ km southeast of Cascade Ponds.
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.
Cascade Ponds
- Type: Bus stop
- Category: transportation
- Location: Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Latitude
51.21213° or 51° 12′ 44″ northLongitude
-115.53726° or 115° 32′ 14″ westNetwork
RoamOpen location code
95366F67+V3OpenStreetMap ID
node 11929512558OpenStreetMap feature
highway=bus_stopOpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=platform
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