Lower Bankhead

Lower Bankhead is a parking area in Alberta, Prairies. Lower Bankhead is situated nearby to Two Jack Lake, as well as near the peak Cascade Mountain.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Bankhead and Banff Airport.

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 180 metres south of Lower Bankhead.

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. Banff Airport is situated 3 km southwest of Lower Bankhead.

Cascade Mountain

Peak

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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 3 km west of Lower Bankhead.

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 5 km southeast of Lower Bankhead.

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.

Lower Bankhead

Type: Parking area
Category: transportation
Location: Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Latitude

51.23247° or 51° 13′ 57″ north

Longitude

-115.52344° or 115° 31′ 24″ west

Open location code

95366FJG+XJ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 614436602

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=parking

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Two Jack Main Campground and Two Jack Lake.

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