Mount Mitchell (Alberta)

Mount Mitchell
Elevation 3,040 m (9,974 ft) [1]
Prominence 205 m (673 ft) [2]
Location
Location  Alberta  Canada
Range Sir Winston Churchill Range
Topo map NTS 83C/05

Mount Mitchell is a mountain located within the Sunwapta River valley of Jasper National Park, Canada, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) southeast of Mount Morden Long.

Mt. Mitchell was named in 1970 for J.H. Mitchell and Mitchell Lobb, who were engineers for the Department of the Interior. Mitchell oversaw the construction of the Icefields Parkway from Jasper to the Banff-Jasper boundary.

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