Natural feature
Consolation Lakes
Twin turquoise alpine lakes reached by a forested talus-field trail beneath glacier-topped peaks.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Consolation Lakes trail near Moraine Lake in Banff National Park follows a shuttle ticket back to the surveyor Walter Wilcox, who was handing out names for free in eighteen ninety nine. It traces how a valley he named Consolation, in contrast to its grimmer neighbor, sits behind a road that once turned away thousands of cars a day before Parks Canada closed it to private vehicles entirely. Along the way it counts who now profits from getting visitors to a lake that used to cost nothing to reach.
This audio guide was created using AI.