Banded Peak

Banded Peak is a 2,934-metre mountain in the Elbow River valley of Kananaskis Country in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies. Visible from Highway 66 in clear weather, it is distinguished by a limestone cliff band that gave rise to its name, which has been used since about 1896 and was officially adopted in 1951. The mountain is made of sedimentary rock deposited from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in shallow seas and later thrust east over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. It lies in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, mild summers, and drainage flowing into the Elbow River.

Alberta · Canada