Big Bend Peak

Big Bend Peak is a 2,804-metre summit in Banff National Park in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies, rising above the upper North Saskatchewan River valley west of the Icefields Parkway near the highway curve that inspired its name. Its nearest higher neighbor is Mount Saskatchewan to the south. The mountain is composed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian through the Jurassic in ancient shallow seas, then pushed eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny, part of the process that shaped this landscape. In a subarctic climate, its cold snowy winters, mild summers, and runoff connect it closely to the river valley below.

Alberta · Canada