page_title: Sulphur Mountain (Alberta)
section_title: Recreation
hierarchical_section_title: Sulphur Mountain (Alberta) / Recreation
caption_attribution_description: English: Panorama taken from the summit of Sulphur Mountain in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
context_page_description: Sulphur Mountain is a mountain in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains overlooking the town of Banff, Alberta, Canada.
  The mountain was named in 1916 for the hot springs on its lower slopes. George Dawson had referred to this landform as Terrace Mountain on his 1886 map of the area. Sanson's Peak was named in 1948 for Norman Bethune Sanson who diligently attended the observatory recording equipment atop Sulphur Mountain for nearly 30 years.
context_section_description: Two hot springs have been commercially developed.  The lowest is the Cave and Basin National Historic Site and the highest is the Banff Upper Hot Springs.
  A gondola on the eastern slope goes to the summit ridge which has an upper terminal containing two restaurants, a gift shop, and multiple observation decks. The summit ridge provides views both westward up and east down the Bow Valley. A boardwalk can be followed on the north side to the top of Sanson's Peak (2,256 m or 7,402 ft).
  
  The original, and more scenic, summit access is along an old fire road (Sanson Road) on the Southwest face of the mountain with a distance of 5.8 km from the Banff Sundance Canyon trail system near the Bow River.  Another 5.4 km switchback Trail route exists under the Gondola with Trail-head access from the Banff Hot Springs parking lot near the Gondola terminal.
caption: The view from the summit of Sulphur Mountain
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