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Photo: Watch Tower from the Cataract Brook valley (courtesy Dave Whiting)

Watch Tower

  • 2542 m (8,340ft)
  • First Ascent
  • Hiking and Trails
51.4014N -116.319W
Located in the Cataract Brook Valley; theculmination of a ridge trending north west from Collier Peak; 1.4 km south of Narao Peak

Province: BC
Park: Yoho
Headwater: Columbia
Ascent Date: 1932
Ascent Party: J.A. Corry; B.B. Gilman, H.S. Whitney
Popular Hike: Lakes Louise/Moraine/O'Hara
Journal Reference: AAJ 2-125; CAJ 21-25

This stiking spire marks the halfway point between the Trans-Canada Highway and Lake O'Hara as one travels up the Cataract Brook valley. The Watchtower in the Maligne Lake Valley of Jasper National Park, Watch Tower in the Cataract Brook Valley of Yoho National Park, and Watchman Peak near Thompson Pass are sometimes confused.