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Mount Hector
- Easiest route
- 6.2 km+1,445 m · about 4 h
- Prominence
- 1,759 m5,771 ft
- Tonight
- -20°CPartly cloudy · Wind 7 km/h NW
Mount Hector is a 3,394 m (11,135 ft) mountain in the Front Ranges, Alberta, Canada.
All facts
- Elevation
- 3,394 m · 11,135 ft
- Range
- Front Ranges
- Region
- Alberta, Canada
- Protected area
- Banff National Park
- Coordinates
- 51.5757° N, 116.2585° W
How to get to the top of Mount Hector
2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Parking, 4.6 km NW of Mount Hector
- Distance
- 6.2 kmone way
- Climb
- +1,445 m(4,741 ft up)
- Time up
- about 4 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
Other routes 1
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Hector 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 11 × 11 km
Mount Hector terrain and contours
100 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
West → east through the summit
Mount Hector weather
Today · Clear · -20 / -14°C (-4 / 7°F) · Wind 7 km/h NW
Mount Hector forecast for the summit, about 3,394 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,842 m.
- Today-20°-14°–7 km/h NWBase -11 / -4°
- Sat-18°-11°4.1 mm9 km/h EBase -9 / -1°
- Sun-17°-10°–9 km/h SEBase -8 / 0°
- Mon-13°-6°–2 km/h WBase -4 / 4°
- Tue-12°-9°0.8 mm5 km/h SWBase -3 / 1°
- Wed-16°-11°9.1 mm5 km/h EBase -7 / -1°
- Thu-23°-13°0.9 mm4 km/h SWBase -13 / -3°
- Fri-18°-14°1.0 mm4 km/h SWBase -9 / -5°
- Sat-17°-16°0.9 mm9 km/h SWBase -7 / -7°
- Sun-18°-13°–6 km/h SWBase -8 / -4°
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, 23:19 UTC.
Camping & parking near Mount Hector
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Hector, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
3.5 km W
Nearest campsite
Molar Creek Campground
All mapped places 5
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 3.5 km W |
| Parking | 3.7 km WNW |
| Parking | 3.8 km WNW |
| Molar Creek CampgroundCampsite | 4.2 km ENE |
| Mosquito Creek CampgroundCampsite | 8.0 km NW |
How steep is the route to Mount Hector?
The easiest mapped route, 6.2 km from 1,842 m to 3,394 m. Steepest stretch: 48°.
- 0–15°4.0 km
- 15–30°2.1 km
- 30–45°0.1 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 70 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
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 5.5 km, measured from the Mount Hector summit.
Summit list 4
- 1Little Hector3,124 m 2.0 km NW
- 2Hector South Peak2,972 m 2.4 km SSE
- 3Mount Andromache3,002 m 4.9 km NNW
- 4Hector South Ridge2,706 m 5.4 km SSE
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 5.5 km; 116 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- American Black Bear28
- Fireweed15
- Giant red paintbrush10
- Brown Bear8
- Western Toad8
- Yellow Mountain-avens7
Where Mount Hector sits
- Region
- Alberta66Canada331North America1,313
- Protected area
- Banff National Park17
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Mount Hector downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
95 m low This 3D map reads 3,299 m at the summit; the official height is 3,394 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 101 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 3,394 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 3,299 m | -95 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 3,293 m | -101 m |
Data sources
- 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 2026-08-21)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Accuracy comparison, 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)
- Sources
- Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia