Prince George / Elevation sheet
Ferguson Lake Nature Reserve
- Loop
- 2.4 km
- Elevation gain
- 40 m Published route measurement
- Walking time
- 0.5–1 hour for the shoreline circuit
- Difficulty
- Easy Loop
return circuit around the lake; published estimate 2.4 km, mapped circuit about 2.46 km
https://hikingprincegeorge.com/hikes/ferguson-lake-nature-reserve
Elevation along the outing
Full loop
Start: Ferguson Lake north-side trail access · Finish: Ferguson Lake north-side trail access (2.5 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 city’s licensed trail geometry is an exactly closed shoreline loop. The public route description identifies the north-side access at54.037100,-122.842573 and permits either direction around the lake. Rotating the closed source chain to its existing vertex162 places the graph start32m from that documented access, instead of an arbitrary southern vertex. The loop itself is unchanged; no parking connector is drawn.
Copernicus GLO-90 terrain elevations via Open-Meteo (CC BY4.0); linework: Open Government Licence – City of Prince George
Copernicus DEM 2021 GLO-90 via Open-Meteo. Linework source: https://services2.arcgis.com/CnkB6jCzAsyli34z/ArcGIS/rest/services/OpenData_ParkData/FeatureServer/7. Sampled and rounded for display.
Source: https://open-meteo.com/en/licence
Licence: CC BY4.0 elevation data; Open Government Licence – City of Prince George linework · https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Profile source checked: 2026-10-18
How the elevation gain was established
Outing: 2.4 km shoreline interpretive circuit from the Ferguson Lake access; not a 3.5 km alternative
This total is published for the named outing. Other starting points or turnarounds can produce different climbing totals.
The publisher defines its elevation figure as total elevation gained from its GPS route.
Sources checked 2026-10-19.
Measurement notes
The 40 m ascent belongs to the publisher’s 2.4 km shoreline circuit, now selected as the main outing. The licensed City circuit measures about 2.46 km and excludes a parking connector. Caledonia Ramblers gives 3.5 km for the same lake circuit; a separate alignment has not been established.