Tourist attraction
Crowfoot Glacier Viewpoint
Roadside pullout with views of a shrinking three-toed glacier above a turquoise lake.
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About this audio guide
Crowfoot Glacier Viewpoint on the Icefields Parkway near Banff looks up at ice that no longer matches its own name, given by early travelers who counted three claw-like spurs on Crowfoot Mountain. This guide traces what happened to the missing toe around the middle of the twentieth century, and what the remaining ice reveals about the meltwater feeding Bow Lake and the Bow River below. It also ties this small roadside glacier to the far larger Columbia Icefield further north on the same highway.
This audio guide was created using AI.