Castle Mountain

Castle Mountain is a mountain situated inside Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, roughly somewhere between Banff and Lake Louise. It is the easternmost pile of the Main Ranges in the Bow Valley and sits on the back of the Castle Mountain Fault which has pushed more seasoned sedimentary and transformative rocks shaping the upper piece of the mountain over the more youthful rocks framing its base.

The mountain's castellated, or mansion like, appearance is an aftereffect of erosive procedures acting at ious rates on the pinnacle's exchanging layers of milder shale and harder limestone, dolomite and quartzite. The mountain was named in 1858 by James Hector for its stronghold like appearance. From 1946 to 1979 it was known as Mount Eisenhower to pay tribute to the World War II general Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Open weight made its unique name be reestablished, however a zenith on the southeastern side of the mountain was named Eisenhower Tower. Found close-by are the remaining parts of Silver City, a nineteenth century mining settlement, and the Castle Mountain Internment Camp in which people esteemed adversary outsiders and suspected foe sympathizers were kept amid World War I.