Upper Fraser & Sugarbowl / Elevation sheet
Kittil Falls
- Round trip
- 0.4 km
- Elevation gain
- Approx. 50 m Terrain-model estimate; not a surveyed measurement.
- Walking time
- Unconfirmed
- Difficulty
- Unconfirmed
complete mapped out-and-back to the documented destination
Elevation along the outing
Full round trip
Start: Mapped parking / recreation access · Turn around: Kittil Falls (0.2 km) · Finish: Mapped parking / recreation access (0.4 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 retained path starts at the mapped REC1425 recreation campsite and ends near the independently named Kittil Falls waterfall node. The recreation directory and tourism waterfall brochure describe the short upstream walk and return. The endpoint is the existing path beside the falls; no line is extended onto the waterfall or across the creek.
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/775525075. 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 Mapped parking / recreation access to Kittil Falls and back; 0.40 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
Source comparison: Published itinerary; 0.3 km; parking to falls scope. This describes the main outing, or an unresolved source estimate, rather than a separate route.
Source comparison: Kittil Falls recreation site; source does not state return basis scope. This is another description of the main outing, a duplicate endpoint, an unscoped source claim, or a related facility.
The complete mapped path from the recreation site to the falls and back measures about 0.40 km. The directory’s 0.3 km parking-to-falls estimate differs; no extra connection is drawn.