Barbour Falls

Round trip: 1.6 km
Elevation gain: Approx. 30 m
Walking time: About 1 hour return
Difficulty: Easy

one way; trail narrative

https://hikingprincegeorge.com/hikes/barbour-falls

Elevation along the outing

Full round trip

Start: Named Barbour Falls trailhead · Turn around: Main falls viewpoint vicinity, corroborated by steward-recorded turnaround (0.8 km) · Finish: Named Barbour Falls trailhead (1.7 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 steward describes about 800 m along the maintained trail to the main falls viewpoint, with the small pool-and-falls side spur separate. The named OSM trailhead is an existing vertex on the retained line; it lies about 7 m from the first recorded point of the steward's Barbour Falls track. The farthest recorded point on that return outing lies about 20 m from the retained OSM endpoint. Those independent geographic facts corroborate the main-viewpoint scope; the government waterfall centroid is not the viewpoint. Only endpoint facts were consulted from the publisher GPX. Its full track was not imported, traced or redistributed, and the published GPS turnaround is not treated as survey-grade viewpoint positioning. The route returns along the same main path.

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/197475931. 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 Named Barbour Falls trailhead to Main falls viewpoint vicinity, corroborated by steward-recorded turnaround and back; 1.69 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.