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Mount Robson
- Mapped trail
- 10.0 km+2,128 m · about 6 h · T5Ends 1,390 m below the summit.
- Prominence
- 2,829 m9,281 ft
- Isolation
- at least 200 km
- Tonight
- -29°CFog · Wind 7 km/h NE
Mount Robson is a 3,954 m (12,972 ft) mountain in the Rainbow Range, British Columbia, Canada.
All facts
- Elevation
- 3,954 m · 12,972 ft
- Range
- Rainbow Range
- Region
- British Columbia, Canada
- Protected area
- Mount Robson Provincial Park
- Spanish name
- Monte Robson
- Coordinates
- 53.1107° N, 119.1569° W
Trails toward Mount Robson
Mapped trails from the road get to 1,390 m below the summit, typically a pass, lake or camp. The top itself is a mountaineering climb with no mapped route.
From Road end, 4.4 km SSW of Mount Robson
- Distance
- 10.0 kmone way
- Climb
- +2,128 m−608 m (6,982 ft up)
- Time up
- about 6 h
- Difficulty
- T5Demanding alpine: scrambling, possible snow or glacier
Ends 1,390 m below the summit.
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Robson 3D map
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Mount Robson terrain and contours
200 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 Robson weather
Today · Cloudy · -29 / -18°C (-20 / 0°F) · Wind 7 km/h NE
Mount Robson forecast for the summit, about 3,954 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,003 m.
- Today-29°-18°–7 km/h NEBase -12 / 0°
- Sat-25°-17°0.3 mm9 km/h EBase -8 / 0°
- Sun-23°-15°–8 km/h NEBase -5 / 2°
- Mon-18°-11°0.1 mm1 km/h SEBase 0 / 6°
- Tue-19°-14°3.4 mm5 km/h NEBase -1 / 4°
- Wed-23°-17°1.4 mm8 km/h EBase -6 / 1°
- Thu-24°-19°0.4 mm3 km/h SEBase -6 / -2°
- Fri-24°-19°0.2 mm3 km/h SWBase -7 / -1°
- Sat-22°-22°0.7 mm5 km/h SWBase -5 / -4°
- Sun-17°-15°0.2 mm6 km/h SBase 1 / 3°
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 Mount Robson
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Robson, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Marmot Campground
Nearest hut
Cabin
Nearest parking
7.8 km SSW
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Marmot CampgroundCampsite | 3.6 km NNW |
| Kinney Lake CampgroundCampsite | 3.7 km SW |
| Whitehorn CampgroundCampsite | 3.7 km W |
| CabinHut | 3.7 km W |
| Robson Pass HutHut | 6.4 km NNE |
| Parking | 7.8 km SSW |
How steep is the route to Mount Robson?
The easiest mapped route, 10.0 km from 1,003 m to 2,523 m. Steepest stretch: 45°.
- 0–15°6.1 km
- 15–30°2.9 km
- 30–45°1.1 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 110 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 7.7 km, measured from the Mount Robson summit.
Summit list 6
- 1The Helmet3,420 m 1.2 km ENE
- 2The Dome3,078 m 1.8 km SE
- 3Mount Waffl2,890 m 2.1 km NE
- 4Resplendent Mountain3,425 m 4.8 km SE
- 5Lynx Mountain3,192 m 7.4 km ENE
- 6Tatei Ridge2,911 m 7.5 km NE
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 7.7 km; 427 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Devil's Club78
- Western columbine61
- Green spleenwort54
- Yellow lady's slipper46
- Common selfheal40
- Twinflower35
Where Mount Robson sits
- Region
- British Columbia115Canada331North America1,313
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Robson Valley↑58 km WNW
Pyramid MountainPeak · 2,766 m↑70 km ESE
Tonquin Valley↑74 km SE
Patricia Lake1,176 m↑74 km ESE
Jasper Lake999 m↑75 km E
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Mount Robson downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
38 m low This 3D map reads 3,916 m at the summit; the official height is 3,954 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 60 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 3,954 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 3,916 m | -38 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 3,894 m | -60 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 2026-09-13)
- 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