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Lake Louise is a glacial lake in Banff National Park in Canada in the south of the Canadian Rockies. The area of ​​the lake is 0.8 square kilometers. the length is about 2 km the width is 0.5 km. Its unusual bright coloration the water in it has acquired thanks to the rock brought by streams from the glaciers.

At first the lake was called Emerald but later it was renamed Lake Louise in honor of Princess Louise the fourth daughter of the British Queen Victoria and the wife of the Marquise John Campbell Lorne the 9th Duke of Argyll the 4th Governor-General of Canada. In 1882, Tom Wilson one of the experts who built the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the area of ​​the town the English name Laggan formerly the name of Lake Louise station once heard a distant noise and the Indian explorer explained to him that this rumbling produces a huge white Mountain towering over a lake with small fish. When the next morning Tom Wilson went there he discovered a beautiful lake It is surrounded by majestic Rocky Mountains with snow-capped peaks and bright green forests on picturesque slopes. Later he recalled: For some time we sat and were silent unable to tear our eyes away from the brilliant beauty of the landscape unfolding by the sparkling glacier.

Near Lake Louise is a large number of small lakes waterfalls and paths to them. In the area of ​​the lake there are a number of hotels camping sites and tourist bases. The largest of these hotels is the five-star Fairmont Chateau on the shore of Lake Louise.

The local tourist industry offers entertainment for all tastes: hiking, horse and bike routes golf tennis dog sledding and skating mountaineering canoeing rafting. Near the lake is a large ski resort season from early November to mid-May.

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