Mount Astley

Mount Astley is a 2,869-metre peak in Alberta’s Banff National Park, rising above Lake Minnewanka in one of the park’s most familiar mountain-and-lake settings. It was named for Charles D’Oyley Astley, who ran the boat concession on Lake Minnewanka in the late 1800s, tying the mountain to the area’s early tourism history. The peak is composed of sedimentary rock deposited from the Precambrian through the Jurassic in shallow seas, then pushed eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny that helped build the Rockies. It has a subarctic climate, and its runoff flows into the Bow River system.

Alberta · Canada