Crowfoot Glacier

A glacier 34 km north of Lake Louise along the Icefields Parkway, visible from the highway. Named a century ago for its resemblance to a three-toed crow’s foot, the glacier has since lost one entire “toe,” and the middle toe is in rapid retreat.

The Crowfoot Glacier serves as a visible marker of climate-driven glacial recession; documented by early explorers like Walter Wilcox and now monitored as part of the parkway’s glaciology research. It feeds Bow Lake and the Bow River headwaters.