Meeting of the Waters

Meeting of the Waters is a parking area in British Columbia, Canada which is located on Yoho Valley Road. Meeting of the Waters is situated nearby to the scenic viewpoint Spiral Tunnel Viewpoint (Upper tunnel), as well as near Yoho River.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mount Field and Sherbrooke Lake.

Mount Field

Peak

Photo: Wilson44691, Public domain.

Mount Field is a mountain located about 4 km northeast of the town of Field in Yoho National Park, Canada. The mountain was named in 1884 after Cyrus West Field, an American merchant who had laid the first Atlantic cable. Mount Field is situated 3 km west of Meeting of the Waters.

Sherbrooke Lake

Lake

Photo: CutOffTies, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Sherbrooke Lake is a lake in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada. The lake is bounded on the west by Mount Ogden 2,695 m, Mount Niles 2,972 m to the north, and Paget Peak on the east side. Sherbrooke Lake is situated 3½ km northeast of Meeting of the Waters.

Walcott Quarry

Paleontological site

The Walcott Quarry is the most famous quarry of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, bearing the Phyllopod beds. Walcott Quarry is situated 3½ km west of Meeting of the Waters.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Field and Yoho National Park.

Field

Photo: Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Field is a cozy mountain village located in Yoho National Park within the Canadian Rockies in Canada. The town served as a base for workers on the Canadian Pacific Railway in its early days, and now hosts a small community of about 170, in addition to hosting the Yoho Park administration building and a number of quaint gift shops, restaurants, and small accommodations.

Yoho National Park

Photo: HylgeriaK, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Yoho National Park is British Columbia's sister to Alberta's Banff National Park, a world heritage site, on the western side of the continental divide that separates the two provinces.

Meeting of the Waters

Type: Parking area
Address: Yoho Valley Road
Category: transportation
Location: British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude

51.43623° or 51° 26′ 10″ north

Longitude

-116.42074° or 116° 25′ 15″ west

Open location code

9535CHPH+FP

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2958087778

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=parking

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Highlights include Spiral Tunnel Viewpoint (Upper tunnel) and Spiral Tunnel Viewpoint (Lower tunnel).

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