Nechako Riverside Park

Round trip: 1 km
Elevation gain: Approx. 20 m
Walking time: Unconfirmed
Difficulty: Unconfirmed

one way from parking to lower riverfront picnic area

https://hikingprincegeorge.com/hikes/nechako-riverside-park

Elevation along the outing

Full round trip

Start: Paved trail entrance beside the parking area · Turn around: End of the formal path at the lower riverfront lawn (0.6 km) · Finish: Paved trail entrance beside the parking area (1.2 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 City describes a formal half-kilometre path from the paved parking area down to the riverfront picnic lawn. Its licensed trail-asset layer separately records the 24 m paved parking connector (OBJECTID 309) and 553 m formal switchback path (OBJECTID 686), both named Nechako Riverside Park and sharing an exact endpoint. The current official aerial photograph was visually checked for the lower switchbacks and path beside the picnic lawn. Those two complete City assets define this outing; the terminal point is the end of the formal path, not the water or canoe launch. The return climbs back by the same path. The mapped complete return is about 1.15 km, distinct from the approximate 500 m one-way public description.

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: out-and-back outing from Paved trail entrance beside the parking area to End of the formal path at the lower riverfront lawn and back; 1.15 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 City describes an approximately 500 m accessible approach. Retracing it gives approximately 1 km for the outing; the mapped path measurement may differ slightly. The longer riverside AllTrails listing is separate.