Athabasca Falls

About 200 km (125 mi.) north of Lake Louise (and 33 km (20 mi.) south of Jasper) the Athabasca River plunges down over a solid rock of Pre-Cambrian quartz sandstone. By retrograde erosion the waterfall is steadily retreating leaving a narrow gorge which funnels masses of water into a seething maelstrom, especially when the snow melts in early summer.

A path with a bridge and various lookout points circles around the 22 m (72 ft) waterfalls and the gorge with its precipitous rockfaces