Natural feature
Lower Bankhead
Abandoned coal-mining ghost town with mine ruins and a forested interpretive trail.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Lower Bankhead, the coal-mining ghost town in Banff National Park, follows the men who quarried anthracite out of Cascade Mountain from nineteen oh three, and the underground water table that forced them to mine in an unusual direction. It traces the Pacific Coal Company's two-decade run and the day in nineteen twenty-two when a closure notice ended it. Stand among the surviving foundations and listen for what the mountain kept and what it let go.
This audio guide was created using AI.