Snow Dome

Snow Dome is a 3,456-metre peak in the Columbia Icefield on the Continental Divide, where the Alberta–British Columbia border meets the boundary between Banff and Jasper national parks. Named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie for its dome-like ice-covered form, it stands amid one of the most heavily glaciated parts of the Canadian Rockies, with major glaciers flowing from its slopes in four directions. Its greatest significance is hydrological: as one of North America’s two triple divides, runoff from its summit can ultimately drain to the Pacific Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, or Hudson Bay through some of the continent’s largest river systems.

Alberta · Canada