Beauty Creek Falls 1

The Beauty Creek Trail starts at a pullout on the east side of the Icefields Parkway 15-1/2 kilometers north of the Columbia Icefields Center in Jasper National Park. The pullout isn’t marked, so keep watch for either parked cars, or a wooden post marking the trail. Follow the trail across a dike to the old roadbed, then head right until you reach Beauty Creek. The trail climbs briefly and then levels above the gorge, with the falls being found just a few dozen meters ahead to the right.Beauty Creek is a waterfall-studded stream which can be found just north of the Columbia Icefields in Jasper National Park. An easy trail follows along the rim of its canyon, passing eight noteworthy waterfalls in 1-1/2 kilometers, making it one of the best bang-for-your-buck hikes along the Icefields Parkway for those seeking out waterfalls. Only the final waterfall along the trail - Stanley Falls - is named, the others we have opted to refer to numerically (for the time being). The first waterfall encountered along the creek can be found at the head of a narrow slot in the canyon, just above the old roadbed of the former Banff-Jasper Highway. The falls drop 44 feet in the canyon, spilling from a gap in the gorge no more than a meter wide, with a second smaller drop just downstream which cannot be seen due to the shape of the canyon.