Jasper
Jasper is a town of about 5,200 people in Jasper National Park in the Alberta Rockies region. It is a small tourist town that serves as a base for exploring the park, and for outdoor sports such as skiing, hiking, climbing, canyoning, rafting, canoeing, golfing and fat biking.Photo: Ryanshepherd, Public domain.
Photo: Sanchom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Jasper Park Information Centre
Tourism office
Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Jasper Park Information Centre National Historic Site, located in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada, is the primary visitor contact centre for visitors to the park.
Jasper Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0.
Jasper station is on the Canadian National Railway mainline in Jasper, Alberta.
Jasper
- Type: Town with 4,590 residents
- Description: municipality in Alberta, Canada
- Categories: specialized municipality in Alberta and locality
- Location: Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.8752° or 52° 52' 31" northLongitude
-118.0824° or 118° 4' 57" westPopulation
4,590Elevation
1,062 metres (3,484 feet)IATA airport code
YJAOpen Location Code
9543VWG9+32OpenStreetMap ID
node 51971014OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6354954Wikidata ID
Q999429Jasper Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: جاسبر
- Basque: Jasper
- Belarusian: Джаспер (Альберта)
- Belarusian: Джаспер
- Catalan: Jasper
- Chinese: 賈斯珀
- Chinese: 贾斯珀
- Dutch: Jasper (Canada)
- Dutch: Jasper
- English: Jasper, Alberta
- English: Municipality of Jasper
- Esperanto: Jasper
- Esperanto: Jaspero
- Finnish: Jasper
- French: Jasper
- Galician: Jasper, Alberta
- Galician: Jasper
- German: Jasper
- German: Jasper's House
- German: Jasper’s House
- Greek: Τζάσπερ
- Irish: Jasper, Alberta
- Italian: Jasper
- Japanese: ジャスパー
- Korean: 재스퍼
- Norwegian: Jasper
- Norwegian Bokmål: Jasper
- Persian: جاسپر
- Persian: جاسپر، آلبرتا
- Polish: Jasper (Kanada)
- Polish: Jasper
- Portuguese: Jasper
- Romanian: Jasper, Alberta
- Romanian: Jasper
- Russian: Джаспер
- Serbian: Džasper
- Serbian: Џаспер
- Spanish: Jasper
- Spanish: municipio de Alberta
- Ukrainian: Джаспер (Альберта)
- Urdu: جسپر، البرٹا
- Urdu: جیسپر، البرٹا
- Western Panjabi: جیسپر، البرٹا
Other Places Named Jasper
In the Area
Jasper is situated close to the localities Wynd and Maligne Canyon.
- Jasper Park LodgeLocality
- Indian PassLocality, 10 km southwest
- Marmot PassLocality, 11 km south
- Whistlers PassLocality, 11 km southwest
- GeikieLocality, 12 km west
- Jasper National Park
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Jasper. Photo: Sanchom, CC BY-SA 3.0.