2024年2月16日 · Athabasca Falls is one of the most visited waterfalls in the Rockies, as nearly everyone stops when driving between Banff and Jasper on the Icefields Parkway. It’s the perfect pit stop on any visit to the region. Let’s dig into a few tidbits before your visit!

Pouring over a layer of hard quartzite, the falls have cut into the softer limestone beneath, carving intricate features, including potholes and a short canyon. Flowing from the glaciers of the Columbia Icefield, the Athabasca River is the largest river system in Jasper.

2024年8月13日 · Athabasca Falls is one of the most beautiful waterfalls in Jasper National Park! Here's all the info you need to know before you visit!

Athabasca Falls is a waterfall in Jasper National Park on the upper Athabasca River, approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of the townsite of Jasper, Alberta, Canada, and just west of the Icefields Parkway.

Athabasca Falls is a Class 5 waterfall on the Athabasca River, the largest river system in Jasper National Park. The river and falls are fed with water flowing from the Columbia Icefield glaciers, snowmelt from surrounding mountains, and rainwater.

5 天之前 · Athabasca Falls is located approximately thirty minutes south of Jasper along the scenic Icefields Parkway, located inside Jasper National Park. This is a place definitely worth stopping and exploring, especially if this is the first time hikers are …

Experience Athabasca River Whitewater Rafting on guided Jasper adventures. Choose from rafting in the morning or afternoon to ride along Alberta, Canada's Athabasca River in Jasper National Park. Combine the Glacier Skywalk and the Athabasca Glacier tour from Icefield Glacier Discovery Centre.

The Athabasca river falls over hard quartzite and through softer limestone, carving the shorter gorge and a number of potholes. Athabasca falls can be safely viewed and photographed from numerous platforms and hiking trails around the falls.

Among the most powerful and breathtaking falls in the Rocky Mountains, The Athabasca River thunders through a narrow gorge where the walls have been smoothed and potholes are created by the sheer force of the rushing water carrying sand and rock.

Athabasca Valley glacier sheared of hard rock to cause a cliff and the glacial stream whittled away rocks to form the canyon. As glacier receded, Athabasca river which originates at the Columbia ice field flowed through this narrow gorge and fell ~ 23m over a cliff causing a class 5 water fall.