It is the famous lake in this city. The Bow Lake is a little lake in western Alberta, Canada. The lake lies south of the Bow Summit, east of the Waputik Range sees including Wapta Icefield, Bow Glacier, Bow Peak, Mount Thompson, Crowfoot Glacier and Crowfoot Mountain and west of the Dolomite Pass, Dolomite Peak and Cirque Peak.
It is situated on the Bow River, in the Canadian Rockies, at a height of 1920 m. The Bow Lake is one of the lakes that line the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park and Jasper National Park, other such lakes being Mistaya Lake, Waterfowl Lakes, Chephren Lake, Hector Lake, Lake Louise, Peyto Lake, and Sunwapta Lake.