Cascade

Cascade is an electrical substation in Improvement District No. 9, Alberta. Cascade is situated nearby to the locality Anthracite, as well as near Johnson Lake.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Johnson Lake and Banff Airport.

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 west of Cascade.

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 3½ km northwest of Cascade.

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.

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

Type: Electrical substation
Category: industry
Location: Improvement District No. 9, Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Latitude

51.20027° or 51° 12′ 1″ north

Longitude

-115.50246° or 115° 30′ 9″ west

Operator

Transalta

Open location code

95366F2X+42

OpenStreetMap ID

way 503369325

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