Bow Hut
The Bow Hut is an alpine hut located at an elevation of 2,350 metres on the eastern edge of the Wapta Icefield in Banff National Park. It is the largest, best equipped, and most accessible of the four alpine huts on the Wapta Icefield, and serves as the base for a wide variety of ski tours and mountaineering ascents to half a dozen peaks on the Wapta.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mount Olive and Mount Thompson.
Mount Olive
Peak
Mount Olive is located N of the head of the Yoho River on the Continental Divide, on the Alberta-British Columbia border, in both Banff National Park and Yoho National Park.
Mount Thompson
Peak
Photo: Antony Stanley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mount Thompson is a 3,089-metre mountain summit located four kilometres west of Bow Lake in Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. Mount Thompson is situated 4 km northwest of Bow Hut.
Bow Hut
- Type: Mountain hut
- Description: alphine hut
- Categories: geographical feature, building, tourism, and accommodation
- Location: Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Latitude
51.63461° or 51° 38′ 5″ northLongitude
-116.48985° or 116° 29′ 24″ westElevation
2,350 metres (7,710 feet)Operator
Alpine Club of CanadaOpen location code
9535JGM6+R3OpenStreetMap ID
way 754366571OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=alpine_hutWikidata ID
Q4950640
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