Field is an unincorporated community of approximately 169 people located in the Kicking Horse River valley of southeastern British Columbia, Canada, within the confines of Yoho National Park.
At an elevation of 1,256 m (4,121 ft), it is 27 km (17 mi) west of Lake Louise along the Trans-Canada Highway, which provides the only road access to the town.
The community is named for Cyrus West Field of Transatlantic telegraph cable fame, who visited the area in 1884.
[1] Field's land ownership was split between the Crown and the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), with the border between the two jurisdictions being Stephen Avenue.
Commonly called by the workers "the stone bugs", the first fossils were discovered on Mount Stephen.