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Tunnel Mountain rises beside Banff in the Bow River Valley, nearly encircled by the town and the Banff Springs Hotel, making it one of the area’s most visible peaks and best-known short hikes. Indigenous names identify it with a sleeping buffalo, and in recent years Indigenous leaders have sought and ceremonially granted the name Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. Its English name came from an 1882 Canadian Pacific Railway proposal to cut a tunnel through it, a plan quickly rejected and never built. The mountain later gained King’s Lookout, inspired notable admirers, and became closely tied to Banff’s cultural and geological identity.
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