Valemount & Mount Robson / Elevation sheet
George Hicks Park
- Round trip
- 0.6 km
- Elevation gain
- Not established Little climb indicated by the terrain model (under 10 m); exact gain is unresolved.
- Walking time
- 5–10 minutes plus wildlife-viewing stops
- Difficulty
- Easy Out and back
return
Elevation along the outing
Full round trip
Start: Swift Creek side of George Hicks Park · Turn around: Visitor-centre side of the wetland trail (0.3 km) · Finish: Swift Creek side of George Hicks Park (0.6 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 local guide’s trailhead coordinate is on the Swift Creek side,16m from the named salmon-viewing trail. The opposite end reaches the visitor-centre side, corroborated by the mapped Valemount Visitor Centre building. A return along this short wetland corridor is0.574km, consistent with the guide’s600m outing. No additional salmon-platform or village sidewalk paths are included.
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/619343191. Sampled and rounded for display.
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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 Swift Creek side of George Hicks Park to Visitor-centre side of the wetland trail and back; 0.57 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.