Nature
Epaulette Mountain is a 3,094-metre peak in Alberta's Banff National Park, in the Waputik Mountains of the Canadian Rockies, south of Saskatchewan Crossing near the junction of the Icefields Parkway and David Thompson Highway. It is distinguished by the steep, abrupt rise of its slopes above the Howse and Mistaya valleys and by drainage flowing east to the Mistaya River and west to the Howse River within the North Saskatchewan system. Its name, officially adopted in 1961, comes from the French for “little shoulders” and refers to a glacier resembling an epaulette draped above the cliffs. The mountain was first climbed in 1924.
Hear stories like this as you drive
ExploreHere reads historical markers out loud as you pass them: over 325,000 stories across the US. No account needed.
4.7 · 800+ ratings · Free
FIND IT
Alberta · Canada
