Share on Facebook
Share on X
Share by Email
Share on Google Classroom
Vermilion Pass, elevation 1,651 m, is situated between Boom and Storm mountains on the British Colombia-Alberta border, 42 km West of Banff.
Vermilion Pass takes its name from the mineral springs of iron oxide located along the Vermilion river, 9 km Southwest of the pass, where Indigenous peoples gathered material for war paint and decoration. Sir James Hector's party of the Palliser expedition was the first non-Indigenous group to cross the pass in August 1858.
