Lake Minnewanka Park & Ride

Lake Minnewanka Park & Ride is a parking area in Alberta, Prairies. Lake Minnewanka Park & Ride is situated nearby to the military installation Banff Training Area, as well as near the aerodrome Banff Airport.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Banff Airport and 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.

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 1½ km north of Lake Minnewanka Park & Ride.

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 Lake Minnewanka Park & Ride.

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 Lake Minnewanka Park & Ride.

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.

Lake Minnewanka Park & Ride

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

51.21716° or 51° 13′ 2″ north

Longitude

-115.52943° or 115° 31′ 46″ west

Open location code

95366F8C+V6

OpenStreetMap ID

way 613315976

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=parking

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