Mount Chester

Mount Chester
Mount Chester Location in Alberta
Highest point
Elevation	3,054 m (10,020 ft) ^[1]
Prominence	341 m (1,119 ft) ^[2]
Coordinates	50°48′24.1″N 115°15′47.9″W / 50.806694°N 115.263306°W / 50.806694; -115.263306Coordinates: 50°48′24.1″N 115°15′47.9″W / 50.806694°N 115.263306°W / 50.806694; -115.263306 ^[2]
Geography
Location	Alberta, Canada
Parent range	Kananaskis Range
Topo map	NTS 82J/14
Climbing
Easiest route	Scramble on southwest face

Mount Chester is a mountain located in the Smith-Dorrien Creek Valley of Kananaskis in the Canadian Rockies. The mountain was named in 1917 after HMS Chester, which was severely damaged in the Battle of Jutland.^[1]

Chester Lake is located in a small valley just northwest of the base of the mountain.

References

Ranges

Mountains

Passes

Glaciers

Rivers

see List of rivers of the Canadian Rockies and Category:Rivers of the Canadian Rockies

Peoples

Parks and protected areas

World Heritage Sites	Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

National	Parks Banff Jasper Kootenay Yoho Waterton Lakes Historic Sites Jasper House Jasper Park Information Centre Yellowhead Pass Athabasca Pass Howse Pass Kootenae House Kicking Horse Pass Skoki Ski Lodge Twin Falls Tea House Abbot Pass Refuge Cabin Cave and Basin Banff Park Museum Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station First Oil Well in Western Canada

Provincial (AB)	Parks Bow Valley Bragg Creek Elbow-Sheep Ghost River Kananaskis Peter Lougheed Sheep River Siffleur Spray Valley White Goat Willmore Historic Sites Frank Slide

Provincial (BC)	Akamina-Kishinena Close To The Edge Dune Za Keyih (Frog-Gataga) Elk Lakes Graham-Laurier Hamber Height of the Rockies Hole-in-the-Wall Kakwa Kikomun Creek Kwadacha Mount Assiniboine Mount Fernie Mount Robson Muncho Lake Northern Rocky Mountains Pine Le Moray Stone Mountain Muskwa-Kechika

Ski resorts

Communities

Ecoregions

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