“ Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”

- Richard M. Nixon

Troll Falls Hike

Elevation: 1569m

Round Trip time: 1:20

Difficulty: Easy

Height Gain: 121m

Distance one way: 1.74km

Date: Aug. 23 2010

Troll Falls is a great short family adventure. After a short walk through a forest your greeted to a mystical mossy creek that leads you up to the nice waterfall surrounded by small cliffs. It is also pretty short at roughly 1.5km so without a doubt you can even drag the kids along for this adventure.

How to get to Troll Falls??

The trail starts near Kananaskis village. Assuming you are heading south on highway 40, hang a right towards the village. Instead of making your first left to the village, continue straight for a few meters towards Nakiska and turn off on the gravel road on your right (north side). Follow it along and you will come to a very large parking area.

Troll Falls Trip Log

From the parking lot, you will want to head towards the huge open area under the power lines, there is a path that leads up to a sign. Hikers should go left into the forest while the horses head under the power line.

Shortly after you gain a little bit of elevation (do mean little) and you come to a junction, follow the well parked trail to the right.

The trail, which is wide enough to be a road, is nice and compact throughout.

At least you come to a small clearing with one last sign pointing you to go straight ahead. For the first time on this hike the trail actually narrows a bit and you actually walk through the forest and along the creek that leads you to Troll Falls.

Click here to view in mini Virtual Bubble Picture of a mini 360 letters

Click here to view indepth Virtual Bubble Picture of a mini 360 letters

360 VR from Troll Falls

Please be patient as it may take a little longer to load then a picture.

To use the VR bubble, simply click and drag in any direction.

Once you make your way through the forest you end up at a dead end in the canyon with a waterfall at the end. The waterfall is not the only thing interesting about this location, as you look up the rock appears to have been almost ripped out of the wall. On the left hand side as you approach the falls, there are a few large holes in the cliff walls that really make you think trolls could of lived here once upon a time, who knows.

Return the same way.

GPS Plotted Route

GPS overlay of the route to Troll Falls

The hike is very straight forward so there is not much to add to the GPS overlay.

GPS graph of eleveation for Troll Falls.

The graph does make it look steep, but remember its only 1.7km and little over 100m over the entire stretch so its nothing more then a stroll in the park once you get out there :)

If there is any change to the route you feel others should know about, shoot us an e-mail from our contact page.