Tumbler Ridge & Monkman / Elevation sheet
Babcock Falls
- Round trip
- 2.2 km
- Elevation gain
- Approx. 50 m Terrain-model estimate; not a surveyed measurement.
- Walking time
- Unconfirmed
- Difficulty
- Moderate
complete mapped out-and-back to the documented destination
Elevation along the outing
Full round trip
Start: Core Lodge Road signed summer trail entrance · Turn around: Falls viewpoint above the pool descent (1.1 km) · Finish: Core Lodge Road signed summer trail entrance (2.2 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 maintainer identifies the signed summer entrance on Core Lodge Road at kilometre 13.8 and links to its own trailhead coordinate, 54.908505, -120.976531. That coordinate is near the start of the named OSM Babcock Falls Trail, and a fresh independently named summer trailhead confirms the same location. The retained line ends exactly at OSM viewpoint node 5253334337, above the falls pool. The maintainer describes the developed route as ending at this viewing bench, with a separate steep rope-assisted descent to the left. Only the developed bench approach is included and its return follows the same path. The source line measures about 2.24 km return; the website headline of 4 km is not silently substituted for this defined mapped extent.
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/197475930. 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 Core Lodge Road signed summer trail entrance to Falls viewpoint above the pool descent and back; 2.24 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
The complete mapped summer viewing-bench return measures about 2.24 km. The steward website’s 4 km headline has no matched endpoint extent; the rope descent and winter entrance are excluded.