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The Icefields Parkway was predated by the Glacier Trail, which opened in 1885 after the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed and brought increased tourist traffic to Banff National Park. In 1931, the federal government commissioned the construction of a single-track road between Lake Louise and Jasper in the Great Depression as a relief project .
It is located within Banff National Park at the junction of Highway 93 (Icefields Parkway) and Highway 11 (David Thompson Highway). It is administered by Improvement District No. 9 . It was named "The Crossing", when travellers and fur traders used this spot to cross the North Saskatchewan River on their way to British Columbia in the 19th century.
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Over 58,000 lane kilometres (equivalent to 28,400 kilometres) of the roads in the network are paved, with the remaining being unpaved. [3] Outside this network, the total length of the road infrastructure in Alberta totals over 473,000 kilometres of single-lane equivalent roads.
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The Icefields Parkway is a 230-kilometre-long (140 mi) [36] road connecting Lake Louise to Jasper, Alberta. The Parkway originates at Lake Louise, and extends north up the Bow Valley, past Hector Lake, which is the largest natural lake in the park. [35] Other scenic lakes near the parkway include Bow Lake, and Peyto Lakes, both north of Hector ...
The mountain can be seen from the Icefields Parkway (#93) near Sunwapta Pass and is 2.3 km WSW of Mount Athabasca. Mt. Andromeda was named in 1938 by Rex Gibson, former president of the Alpine Club of Canada, after Andromeda, the wife of Perseus. [1] From the Climber's Guide:
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