Natural feature
Tunnel Mountain
Ridge above the Bow River named for a railway tunnel that was surveyed but never blasted through it.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Tunnel Mountain in Banff centers on eighteen eighty-two, when railway surveyor Albert Bowman Rogers proposed boring straight through the ridge for Canada's new transcontinental line. It follows the clash between Rogers and Canadian Pacific's general manager over whether that plan was worth the cost, and the older Stoney Nakoda name for the same summit, the Sleeping Buffalo. The switchback trail up the mountain today still carries the argument in its name.
This audio guide was created using AI.