Mount Wilcox (Alberta)

Mount Wilcox
Wilcox Peak

Highest point
Elevation	2,884 m (9,462 ft) ^[1]
Prominence	509 m (1,670 ft) ^[2]
Coordinates	52°14′40″N 117°14′20″W / 52.24444°N 117.23889°W / 52.24444; -117.23889 ^[1]
Geography
Location	Alberta, Canada
Parent range	Columbia Icefield, Canadian Rockies
Topo map	NTS 83C/03
Climbing
Easiest route	Scramble

Mount Wilcox (also known as Wilcox Peak) is a mountain in Alberta, Canada.

Athabasca Glacier, from near the summit of Mount Wilcox

Mount Wilcox seen from Athabasca Glacier.

It is located in Jasper National Park right beside the Columbia Icefield visitor centre. The mountain was named by J. Norman Collie in 1898 after Walter D. Wilcox, an early explorer of the Canadian Rockies.

Mount Wilcox is a moderate scramble from Wilcox Pass. Because of its location, it provides one of the best views of the Athabasca Glacier.

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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