Troll Falls Snowshoe Trail

Elevation: 1569m

Round Trip time: 2:00

Difficulty: Easy

Height Gain: 60m

Round Distance: 3.7km

Date: March 13 2011

How to get to Troll Falls?

The trail starts near Kananaskis village. If coming from Calgary, head south on highway 40 and take the turn off for Kananaskis village. Instead of making your first left to the village, continue straight for a 10-50 meters towards Nakiska and turn off on the gravel road on your right hand side (north side). Follow it along and you will come to a parking area.

Troll Falls Snowshoe Trip Log

Once parked the trailhead is on the north end of the parking lot. Just past a low gate you will see a path heading into the forest on the left hand side.

Shortly after you enter the forest the trail starts to head upwards before leveling off. While it does go up hill, the total elevation gain is negligible. When you approach a fork in the road, there will be a sign in the center. Follow the Troll Falls arrow and follow the path to the right.

After a little bit more snowshoeing you come across another sign. This one is more of a map but in winter time there is a small trail that snowshoers have followed to the left. Be sure to stay on the larger path and follow it along to the right again.

In the last stretch the forest thins out a little bit as you approach the last sign. There will be a small sign suggesting to go straight past it onto a smaller narrow trail through thickening forest. Following this trail leads you straight to Troll Falls.

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360 VR from Troll Falls

As usual, not much sun makes it down near the water fall here. Still beautiful.

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

When you reach the waterfall there are actually even more places to sit down and have a break then in summer time. This is due to the river being covered in a big blanket of snow that everyone has compacted down pretty well.

You can return the same way or go adventurous and find a creative way back. Since the was about a meter of heavy snow as a base we decided to just wander back straight East to the powerlines. From here we just ploded beside the trail all the way back to the car. Some good ol' trail breaking exercise. Angelica also got the great idea of creating "Jack"; the 4 foot grinning snowman.

Return is the same way you came up.

GPS Plotted Route

GPS overlay of the route taken for Troll Falls.

The way to the Falls is the left side and the return back to the parking lot is on the right. It is reasonably close to what it should be as we paralleled the power line trail on the way back.

GPS graph of eleveation for Troll Falls snowshoe.

It looks as though we lost track of satellites while near the falls. But you can see on the way back the trail does lose more elevation under the power lines then if you continue back the same way you came in.

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