Peyto Lake

Peyto Lake is a glacier-fed lake in Banff National Park in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies, near the Icefields Parkway. Set at an elevation of 1,860 metres in the Waputik Range between Caldron Peak, Peyto Peak, and Mount Jimmy Simpson, it was named for early Banff trail guide and trapper Bill Peyto. Its vivid turquoise colour appears in summer when meltwater carries fine glacial rock flour into the lake from nearby ice. Fed by Peyto Creek from Caldron Lake and Peyto Glacier, part of the Wapta Icefield, the lake drains into the Mistaya River. Its colour and mountain setting have made it one of the parkway’s best-known sightseeing stops.

Alberta · Canada