Commonwealth Peak

Commonwealth Peak is a 2,775-metre mountain in Alberta’s Spray Mountains, within Peter Lougheed Provincial Park in Kananaskis Country. Visible from Highway 742 alongside nearby Mount Birdwood, it was first climbed in 1970 by Charlie Locke and Lloyd McKay. Its name, adopted officially in 1979, honors the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. The mountain is part of the Canadian Rockies’ sedimentary geology, formed from ancient marine deposits laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later uplifted during the Laramide orogeny. It stands in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, mild summers, and the best climbing conditions usually from July through September.

Alberta · Canada