Valemount & Mount Robson / Elevation sheet
Jackman Flats Juniper Trail — Juniper loop with Pine-tree approach
Selected outing: Juniper loop with Pine-tree approach
- Loop
- 3.64 km
- Elevation gain
- Not established Little climb indicated by the terrain model (under 10 m); exact gain is unresolved.
- Walking time
- Unconfirmed
- Difficulty
- Moderate Loop
selected complete loop including retraced northern Pine-tree parking approach; measured from OSM line
https://hikingprincegeorge.com/hikes/jackman-flats-juniper-trail?route=juniper-pine-tree-stem-loop
Elevation along the outing
Full loop
Start: Main parking northern trail entrance · Finish: Main parking northern trail entrance (3.6 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 official BC Parks brochure shows the nested Pine-tree, Juniper and Big Dune trails and the crosslink at the western end of Pine-tree. Its park map was visually checked against the retained named OSM path network. The local YORA guide publishes the main parking trailhead at 52.931196, -119.372379. The selected itinerary uses the northern approach, the named outer loop, the mapped crosslink and a retraced approach, with exact shared source vertices at every junction. No line was traced from the publisher map. The short OSM 120433327 crosslink is absent from that official map and is excluded. The two independent parking entrances are not joined with an invented connector.
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/120433324. 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: loop outing from Main parking northern trail entrance; 3.64 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.
Measurement notes
Selected loop with a retraced northern Pine-tree approach: 3.64 km measured from licensed mapping. The published 3.4 km trail option is a source figure; this selected itinerary explicitly repeats its northern approach, so do not treat the two measurements as interchangeable. Stay on existing paths to protect fragile lichens; check signs for seasonal ski-track use.
No source-specific numeric gain has been established for this selected itinerary.