Ancient Forest — Universal access boardwalk

Selected outing: Universal access boardwalk

Round trip: 0.9 km
Elevation gain: Approx. 30 m
Walking time: Unconfirmed
Difficulty: Easy

one way; approximately 0.9 km returning along the same boardwalk

https://hikingprincegeorge.com/hikes/ancient-forest?route=ancient-forest-universal-access-boardwalk-40vcby

Elevation along the outing

Full round trip

Start: Universal boardwalk entrance sign · Turn around: End of the universal boardwalk (0.4 km) · Finish: Universal boardwalk entrance sign (0.9 km mapped).

Approximate ground elevation from a 90 m terrain model. Distance follows the mapped itinerary and may differ from published walking distance. This is a terrain-model profile, not a surveyed measurement. Any ascent total is identified separately with its own source or estimation method.

How the route order was checked

BC Parks explicitly describes the universal access trail as 450 metres one way. The OSM feature named Universal Boardwalk measures 449.5 metres and runs from within 4 metres of the named entrance sign to its eastern end beside the separate Driscoll trail junction. The entire single named boardwalk is retained and the return retraces it; Driscoll Ridge, the waterfall network and parking connectors are not included. The boardwalk feature carries wheelchair=yes, surface=wood and bridge=boardwalk tags, but these are not a surveyed gradient or current maintenance assessment.

Copernicus GLO-90 terrain elevations via Open-Meteo (CC BY4.0); linework: Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0

Copernicus DEM 2021 GLO-90 via Open-Meteo. Linework source: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1289221674. Sampled and rounded for display.

Source: https://open-meteo.com/en/licence

Licence: CC BY4.0 elevation data; Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0 linework · https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Profile source checked: 2026-10-18

How the elevation gain was established

Outing: out-and-back outing from Universal boardwalk entrance sign to End of the universal boardwalk and back; 0.90 km along the mapped itinerary

Copernicus DEM 2021 GLO-90 via Open-Meteo (90 m resolution). v7-smoothed-ascent-1: interpolate retained terrain samples at 100 m spacing; apply one triangular 1:2:1 smoothing pass over ±100 m; preserve start, finish and documented turnaround heights; sum uphill excursions with a 5 m reversal threshold; round to nearest 10 m.

Approximate terrain-model ascent, not a field or GPS measurement. Coarse cells and smoothing can miss small climbs, switchbacks, structures and sharp terrain. Processing sensitivity is not a statistical confidence interval.

Sources checked 2026-10-19.