Chateau Lake Louise

Chateau Lake Louise, on the eastern shore of Lake Louise in Alberta near Banff, emerged from the Canadian Pacific Railway’s effort to make western rail travel an upscale vacation experience. Growing gradually around the turn of the 20th century, the hotel’s oldest surviving section is the Painter Wing of 1913. After the wooden Rattenbury Wing burned in 1924, the Barott Wing replaced it the next year. Originally a seasonal summer retreat, the hotel was winterized in 1982 and developed into a year-round resort known for skiing, skating, sleigh rides, snowshoeing, and ice sculpture events. Within Banff National Park, it became a destination in its own right.

Alberta · Canada