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Abbot Pass
- Tonight
- -17°CPartly cloudy · Wind 6 km/h NW
Abbot Pass is a mountain pass at 2,892 m in Alberta, Canada.
All facts
- Saddle
- 2,892 m
- Lowest point
- 2,205 m / 1,961 m
Abbot Pass: the climb from each side
Crossed by: Abbot Pass Route, Mount Victoria Route, Mount Lefroy Route
Distances are straight lines from the saddle to the lowest ground on each side; the road is longer.
Abbot Pass 3D map
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Abbot Pass terrain and contours
100 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Abbot Pass elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Abbot Pass weather
Today · Clear · -17 / -9°C (1 / 16°F) · Wind 6 km/h NW
Abbot Pass forecast for about 2,892 m.
- Today-17°-9°–6 km/h NW
- Sat-15°-7°4.0 mm9 km/h E
- Sun-15°-6°–6 km/h E
- Mon-10°-3°–1 km/h NE
- Tue-11°-5°1.5 mm4 km/h W
- Wed-11°-6°14.7 mm6 km/h E
- Thu-19°-8°2.3 mm3 km/h SW
- Fri-20°-11°1.0 mm3 km/h W
- Sat-16°-12°0.6 mm6 km/h SW
- Sun-16°-9°–5 km/h SW
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Abbot Pass
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Abbot Pass, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Pa10
Nearest hut
Elizabeth Parker Hut
Nearest parking
Lake Louise handicap parking
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Pa10Campsite | 2.6 km ESE |
| Lake O'Hara CampgroundCampsite | 4.0 km W |
| Elizabeth Parker HutHut | 4.1 km WSW |
| Parking | 7.6 km NE |
| Parking | 7.7 km NE |
| Lake Louise handicap parkingParking | 7.8 km NE |
Slope
Share of the 8 × 8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.
- Steeper than 30°
- 54.3% of the 64 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,687 m low point 1,748 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 4 km of Abbot Pass.
Summit list 8
- 1Mount Lefroy3,423 m 0.7 km ESE
- 2Glacier Peak3,302 m 1.5 km SSE
- 3Mount Huber3,354 m 1.8 km WNW
- 4Mount Victoria3,467 m 2.0 km NW
- 5Ringrose Peak3,292 m 2.4 km S
- 6Mount Victoria North Peak3,416 m 2.9 km NW
- 7Collier Peak3,215 m 3.2 km NNW
- 8Hungabee Mountain3,492 m 3.4 km S
Where Abbot Pass sits
- Region
- Alberta66Canada331North America1,313
- Protected area
- Banff National Park17
Nearby places
Mount LefroyPeak · 3,423 m↑0.7 km ESE
Lake O'Hara2,115 m↑3.0 km WSW
Mount AberdeenPeak · 3,152 m↑3.4 km ENE
Fairview MountainPeak · 2,744 m↑6.0 km NE
The BeehivePeak · 2,270 m↑6.5 km NNE
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- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-17)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)