Monkman Lake — Cascades Camp

Selected outing: Cascades Camp

Point to point: 20 km
Elevation gain: Approx. 400 m
Walking time: Unconfirmed
Difficulty: Unconfirmed

one-way trail chainage from Kinuseo campground; not road access

https://hikingprincegeorge.com/hikes/monkman-lake?route=cascades-camp-5ylniy

Elevation along the outing

One-way route

Start: Monkman Lake trailhead at Kinuseo Falls campground · Finish: Cascades Campsite (20.3 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

The retained line includes named OSM Cascades Campsite Trail (way1464191885). Its penultimate vertex is3m from the independently tagged Cascades Campsite node6692764586; the last vertex continued beyond the camp to a viewpoint-path junction. Clipping that final excess vertex gives the campsite approach without a fabricated connector. The official GPS location is nearby but offset; it is retained as corroborating regional evidence, not used to place the tent area.

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/relation/13422689. 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: one-way outing from Monkman Lake trailhead at Kinuseo Falls campground to Cascades Campsite; 20.27 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.