Pine Pass, Chetwynd & Peace / Full trip pack
Bijoux Falls
- Published distance
- Unconfirmed Trip basis unconfirmed
- Elevation gain
- Not established Cumulative ascent for this outing has not been established.
- Walking time
- Unconfirmed
- Difficulty
- Unconfirmed
short site walk; no official developed trail
A short roadside stop in Pine Pass provides a fenced view of a cascading waterfall. It is a day-use waterfall visit rather than a developed hiking circuit.
1. Getting there and parking
The park access is directly off Highway 97, approximately 44 km north of McLeod Lake. From Prince George the tourism brochure places the parking on the left after about 187.6 km of northbound travel. Use the signed park entrance and parking area rather than stopping on the highway shoulder; check turning traffic carefully.
2. Walking the route
Walk from the day-use area to the fenced waterfall-viewing area and remain behind the barrier. BC Parks says there are no developed hiking trails in the park, so short distance figures in other guides should be understood as a brief waterfall visit, not a surveyed loop or a route up beside the cascade. The rest area provides a convenient pause on the Pine Pass drive. Keep dogs leashed, avoid climbing around the fence for a closer photograph and leave wildlife, including the resident jays, unfed.
- Walk from the day-use parking to the fenced waterfall viewing area and remain behind the fence.
Mapped outing: Path entrance at day-use parking → Bijoux Falls viewing area → Path entrance at day-use parking. 0.1 km measured along the mapped line; published trip measurements may differ.
3. Route map
The highlighted line follows the documented outing.
© OpenStreetMap contributors. Route geometry is available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. · Line source · Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0 · Source-line database: https://hikingprincegeorge.com/data/osm-route-lines.geojson
Elevation along the outing
Full round trip
Start: Path entrance at day-use parking · Turn around: Bijoux Falls viewing area (0.0 km) · Finish: Path entrance at day-use parking (0.1 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
BC Parks describes viewing the waterfall from the day-use area and advises staying behind the barrier; it does not promote a hiking trail up the falls. The retained OSM path has an exact endpoint at the parking service-road terminus and the other at a tagged viewpoint. Its stored coordinates run viewpoint-to-parking, so this itinerary explicitly reverses them and retraces the short path for the return. An unrelated southward path branch is excluded.
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/1225336178. 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
Published locations
Numbered points match the map. Use the role beside each point. A summit or park reference point is not a parking location.
| Place and role | Coordinates | Source and notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bijoux Falls named falls destination | 55.310278 -122.673611 | BC Gazetteer: Bijoux Falls | Falls | 55 18 36 N | 122 40 24 W | WGS84 | mapsheet 93O/7
Official named-feature location, not parking or a verified route start. This point supports regional orientation and area forecasts; road directions and distance-to-trailhead must use a separately verified access point. https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/d92224ee-03ef-4904-be53-b677d8e01ac4/resource/69738aa8-2cc0-4975-aec6-4dc2e30990bf/download/bc-gazetteer-2026-08-12.csv |
5. Camping, facilities and seasons
Camping and tenting
This is a day-use-only park. Camping and campfires are not permitted.
Water
BC Parks states that no potable water is available.
Toilets
Toilets are provided in the day-use area.
Season and access
Open but not maintained in winter; snow can prevent access.
Winter route
The park is open but is not maintained in winter and may become inaccessible.
Dogs
Pets must stay leashed.
Practical details checked 2026-10-17.
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