Valemount & Mount Robson / Elevation sheet
Rearguard Falls
- Round trip
- 0.4 km
- Elevation gain
- 30 m Published route measurement
- Walking time
- About 30 minutes return
- Difficulty
- Unconfirmed Out and back
return, as published by YORA; other sources use different start/length conventions
Elevation along the outing
Full round trip
Start: Highway 16 falls parking trail entrance · Turn around: Named Rearguard Falls boardwalk viewpoint (0.3 km) · Finish: Highway 16 falls parking trail entrance (0.7 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 local outdoor association publishes the highway-parking trailhead coordinate. The retained approach begins inside that mapped parking area after reversing its original stored order. Its old river-end stops at the junction with the wooden viewing structure. A retained steps segment shares that exact junction coordinate and reaches the named Rearguard Falls viewpoint at its next vertex. This existing source edge is appended, then explicitly retraced with the approach for the return. BC Parks identifies the falls viewing area as the trail objective and requires visitors to remain inside the fenced area. No further riverbank path or water access is added. The mapped total is reported separately from the association's 0.4 km headline.
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/179132724. 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