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Banff Sunshine Village (formerly Sunshine Village) is a ski resort in western Canada, located on the Continental Divide of the Canadian Rockies within Banff National Park in Alberta and Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park in British Columbia. It is one of three major ski resorts located in the Banff National Park. [3]
Ralph D. Scurfield (born March 1956) is the CEO, President, and majority shareholder of Sunshine Village Corporation. [1] The oldest of seven children of Ralph T. and Sonia Scurfield. Ralph and his brothers and sisters grew up in Calgary, Alberta. He is best known as the owner and operator of Banff's Sunshine Village Ski & Snowboard Resort. [2]
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Crowfoot Mountain is located in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. [5] Temperatures can drop below −20 C with wind chill factors below −30 C. Precipitation runoff from Crowfoot Mountain drains into the Bow River which is a tributary of the Saskatchewan River.
Banff is a resort town in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, in Alberta's Rockies along the Trans-Canada Highway, 126 km (78 mi) west of Calgary, 58 km (36 mi) east of Lake Louise, and 1,400 to 1,630 m (4,590 to 5,350 ft) above sea level. [5] Banff was the first municipality to incorporate within a Canadian national park.
Lake Louise (named Ho-run-num-nay (Lake of the Little Fishes) by the Stoney Nakoda First Nations people) [1] [2] is a glacial lake within Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. Situated 11 km (6.8 mi) east of the border with British Columbia , Lake Louise is located 5 km (3.1 mi) west of the hamlet of Lake Louise and the Trans-Canada Highway ...
Eagle Mountain is a 2,836-metre (9,304-foot) mountain summit located immediately northeast of the Banff Sunshine ski resort in Banff National Park of Alberta, Canada.The mountain's toponym was officially adopted in 1958 by the Geographical Names Board of Canada. [3]
Mount Bell is set within Banff National Park, in the Bow Range of the Canadian Rockies. [4] The hamlet of Lake Louise is situated 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) to the north and the Continental Divide is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) to the west. The nearest higher neighbor is Bident Mountain, 2.9 km (1.8 mi) to the west. [4]
Located 57 km (35 mi) west of Banff, Lake Louise is one of three major [a] ski resorts within Banff National Park. [ 3 ] The resort is situated on the southern slopes of the Slate Range , with most of its skiable terrain on the slopes of Whitehorn Mountain , with additional skiable terrain to the east on the lower western slope of Lipalian ...