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Cascade Ponds
Pebbled-shore picnic ponds filling the dry bed of a river rerouted by a nineteen-forty-one hydro dam.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Cascade Ponds near Banff traces how a placid picnic spot ringed with fire pits and mountain views sits inside the drained bed of the Cascade River, rerouted in the nineteen forties to feed a hydroelectric powerhouse. It follows the dam that emptied the channel for seven decades, and the twenty-thirteen flood that forced open a spillway nobody had touched before. You will hear what that flood set loose in a streambed everyone had written off.
This audio guide was created using AI.