Tourist attraction
Silverton Falls
Short forest waterfall over rocky ledges, near a vanished eighteen-eighties silver boomtown.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Silverton Falls in Banff National Park traces the waterfall's name back to Silver City, a Canadian Pacific Railway boomtown that swelled to thousands of prospectors in the eighteen eighties on rumors of copper, lead and silver in Castle Mountain. It follows two mine owners, Patton and Pettigrew, and the claim they called the Homestake, and the shares they sold to eager investors. Stand at the falls and you are looking at nearly all that is left of the town that gave it a name.
This audio guide was created using AI.