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• Rating: moderate
• Trailhead: HI-Yoho (Whiskey Jack Hostel)
The trail to Yoho Lake, which can be combined with the Iceline Trail, officially begins
along the hostel access road, but hikers are asked to leave their vehicles across the road in
the Takakkaw Falls parking lot. It leads 3.7 kilometers (2.3 miles) to picturesque, spruce-
encircled Yoho Lake, where you find picnic tables and campsites. Options from this point
include continuing to Yoho Pass (below the tree line), from where it's 5.5 kilometers (3.4
miles) and an elevation loss of 530 meters (1,740 feet) down to Emerald Lake; six kilo-
meters (3.7 miles) and an elevation gain of 300 meters (985 feet) to spectacular Burgess
Pass; or 2.4 kilometers (1.5 miles) north, with moderately steady elevation, to an intersec-
tion with the Iceline Trail.
The hikes detailed as follows are along the TransCanada Highway.
Paget Lookout
• Length: 3.5 kilometers/2.2 miles (90 minutes) one-way
• Elevation gain: 520 meters/1,700 feet
• Rating: moderate
• Trailhead: Wapta Lake picnic area (not signposted), 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) west of the
Continental Divide
The trail to this viewpoint is moderately strenuous but worthwhile for the panorama of
the Kicking Horse River Valley. The first section of trail traverses a forest of Engelmann
spruce. Then the trail breaks out above the tree line just below the lookout, the site of an
abandoned fire tower. As an alternative, branch right 1.4 kilometers (0.9 mile) along the
trail and continue 1.6 kilometers (one mile) to milky
Sherbrooke Lake,
which is fed by
the Waputik Icefield.
TAKAKKAW FALLS
Much discussion is made of which is Canada's highest waterfall. Della Falls, on
Vancouver Island, also in British Columbia, is 440 meters (1,440 feet) high, but its
drop is broken by a ledge. Takakkaw Falls is considerably lower, at 254 meters (830
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