The Kicking Horse Pass, is the highest point on the Trans-Canada Highway, providing stunning views onto a spectacular mountain corridor in Yoho National Park. The pass is a national historic site that was transformed into a major rail and highway transportation corridor through the Rocky Mountains. The corridor is an engineered landscape of rails, grades and curves, runaway sidings, rock cuts, tunnels, railbeds, snowsheds, and the remains of work camps and other elements used in its construction. The pass was named after an incident in which Dr James Hector, a surgeon on an expedition, was kicked by a horse while exploring the area.