Mount Howard Douglas

Mount Howard Douglas is a 2,877-metre summit in Banff National Park, just east of the Banff Sunshine ski resort in Alberta, with Mount Bourgeau as its nearest higher neighbour. Named for park superintendent Howard Douglas, who lived from 1850 to 1929 and is credited with greatly expanding the park, the mountain received its official name in 1958. Its sedimentary rock was deposited in shallow seas from the Precambrian to Jurassic periods, and later older rocks were thrust eastward over younger layers during the Laramide orogeny, shaping this part of the Canadian Rockies. The mountain’s subarctic climate brings cold snowy winters, mild summers, and runoff into Bow River tributaries.

Alberta · Canada