Natural feature
Cascade Mountain
Craggy peak framing the main street, silhouette protected from development by federal law.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Cascade Mountain in Banff starts with the town itself, deliberately laid out so this peak fills the end of Banff Avenue and stays protected by law from being built over. It picks up the thread in the summer of nineteen fifty-three, when Twentieth Century Fox brought Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum here to raft the Bow River for the Western River of No Return. You will hear what went wrong on the water, and why locals ended up bickering over who got to push Monroe's wheelchair around the Banff Springs Hotel.
This audio guide was created using AI.