60 pieces · NaturePhoto by Vamsikrishnapeela, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The Valley of the Ten Peaks mirrored in Moraine Lake's glacial-turquoise water, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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Moraine Lake, Banff National Park
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Moraine Lake, Banff National Park
Moraine Lake sits in the Valley of the Ten Peaks in Banff National Park, Alberta, about 14 kilometres from the village of Lake Louise, at an elevation of roughly 1,884 metres. It is fed almost entirely by snowmelt and glacial melt, so it takes until mid-to-late June each year to fill to its distinctive crest, and the access road only opens for the summer season. The lake is entirely natural — despite the name, it has never been dammed or altered; the rockslide debris at its outlet simply resembles a moraine.
The colour is the real draw. Meltwater off the surrounding glaciers continually carries fine rock flour — ground-up sediment — into the lake, and that suspended silt scatters the blue end of the light spectrum back out, giving Moraine Lake its saturated, almost unnatural azure once it is full. The ten numbered summits ringing the valley were named by the explorer Samuel Allen in the 1890s using the numerals one through ten in the Stoney Nakoda language; only three have kept their original names today. The view from this rockpile lookout was famous enough to appear on the back of the Canadian twenty-dollar bill in 1969 and again in 1979, earning it the nickname the "Twenty Dollar View."
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Moraine Lake?
- Moraine Lake is in the Valley of the Ten Peaks in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, about 14 kilometres from the village of Lake Louise.
- Why is Moraine Lake so blue?
- The lake is fed by glacial and snow melt carrying fine rock flour — finely ground rock sediment — which stays suspended in the water and scatters the blue end of the light spectrum, giving the lake its saturated turquoise colour once it fills in June.
- Was Moraine Lake really on Canadian money?
- Yes. This view of the lake and the Valley of the Ten Peaks appeared on the back of the Canadian $20 bill in both the 1969 and 1979 series, which is why it is still sometimes called the "Twenty Dollar View."
- Is Moraine Lake a man-made reservoir?
- No, despite the name. The lake is entirely natural, held back by a pile of rockslide debris at its outlet that resembles a glacial moraine — it has never been dammed, drained, or otherwise engineered.