Paget Peak is a mountain in

Yoho National Park Yoho National Park ( ) is a National Parks of Canada, national park of Canada. It is located within the Canadian Rockies, Rocky Mountains along the western slope of the Continental Divide of the Americas in southeastern British Columbia, bordered ...

, British Columbia, Canada. It is readily accessible via a hiking trail.

Description

Paget Peak has an elevation of . It is in

, British Columbia, at the southern end of the Mount Daly Range, beside Mount Bosworth. It is just south of the

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and north of

Wapta Lake Wapta Lake is a glacial lake in Yoho National Park in the Canadian Rockies of eastern British Columbia, Canada. Wapta Lake is formed from Cataract Brook and Blue Creek in Yoho National Park, and is the source of the Kicking Horse River. The Trans ...

. It overlooks this lake and Sherbrooke Lake. It is named after Dean Paget, the first to record ascending the peak, one of the founders of the

Alpine Club of Canada The Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) is an amateur athletic association with its national office in Canmore, Alberta that has been a focal point for Canadian mountaineering since its founding in 1906. The club was co-founded by Arthur Oliver Wheeler, ...

(ACC). He reached the summit with a group of ACC members. The surveyor

James J. McArthur James Joseph McArthur (9 May 1856 – 14 April 1925) was a Canadian surveyor and mountaineer who was the first to climb several peaks in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Two mountains and a lake are named after him, and he gave names to various oth ...

ascended the peak in 1886. The peak gives its name to Paget limestone, found at a type location on the southeast slope of the peak.

Access

The mountain may be accessed from the parking lot on the north side of the

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opposite

, just west of the Alberta border. Access is via the Sherbrooke Lake trail for and then the Paget Lookout trail. This is a hiking trail that leads to a disused fire lookout on the southern slope, one of the first to be built in the park. The lookout was built after two seasons of serious forest fires in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and was used until the late 1970s. The round trip is with an elevation gain of and is rated moderate. The trail is best used from June to September. The peak may be reached by a scramble from the lookout.

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