''Peyto Lake'' is a lake situated in the Canadian Rockies, on the Icefields Parkway about 40 kilometers north of the town of Banff. Access to the viewing area for this magnificent area is immediately off the parkway and is well signposted. Upon climbing the short distance to the viewing point you are greeted by what many consider to be the best view in Canada, and one of the best in the world.

''Peyto Lake'' is located in a convergence of valleys surrounded by magestic mountains and rich forests. The lake system is fed from the glacier to the left of the view point and this gives the lake a magnificent blue colour in the summer months due to the mineral content.