Mount Parrish

Mount Parrish is a prominent summit in southwestern Alberta's Crowsnest Pass, rising steeply above the Crowsnest River and standing within Castle Wildland Provincial Park near the Continental Divide. Part of the Flathead Range in the Canadian Rockies, it is named for early settler Sherman Parrish, who arrived in the area in 1898, homesteaded at the mountain's foot, and raised cattle there; the name was officially adopted in 1962. Its limestone bedrock records sediment laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny. The area is also linked to a 1946 Royal Canadian Air Force DC-3 crash that killed all seven crew members.

Alberta · Canada