Natural feature
Vermilion Lakes
Marshy chain of three lakes mirroring Mount Rundle, with a hot spring and ancient campsites.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Vermilion Lakes in Banff follows archaeologist Daryl Fedje's excavations of the marshy shoreline, where hearths and stone tools trace human presence back roughly ten thousand eight hundred years. It lingers on one puzzle those digs turned up: a fragment of volcanic glass with no natural source near these mountains. The guide ties that ancient campsite to the three shallow lakes, Mount Rundle's reflection, and the hot spring still warming the water today.
This audio guide was created using AI.