Vermilion Peak

Vermilion Peak is a 2,647-metre mountain in Kootenay National Park’s Vermilion River Valley, part of the Ball Range in the Canadian Rockies. Beside the Banff–Windermere Parkway, it takes its name from nearby ochre beds along Ochre Creek that the Ktunaxa First Nations discovered, used in trade, and processed into a red oxide called vermilion. The name was officially adopted on April 3, 1952. Its summit consists of drag-folded sedimentary rocks of the Goodsir Group, deposited from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny. Its runoff feeds tributaries of the Vermilion River.

British Columbia · Canada