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Athabasca Falls Canada
Athabasca Falls is a waterfall in Jasper National Park on the above Athabasca River, almost 30 kilometers south of the town site of Jasper, Alberta, Canada, and exactly west of the Ice fields Parkway. A great, colorful waterfall, Athabasca Falls is not recognized so much for the depth of the falls (23 meters), as it is acknowledged for its dynamism due to the large amount of water falling into the gorge. Even on a cool morning in the fall, when river heights incline to be at their lowest, copious quantity of water flow over the falls.
The river cascades over a layer of solid quartzite and over the softer limestone beneath carving the short gorge and a number of holes. The falls can be securely viewed and shot from numerous viewing platforms and walking trails everywhere the falls. Access is from the close parking lot, which leads off Main road 93A just northeast of the falls. Highway 93A takes off from the nearby Ice fields Parkway, and signs the falls on the way north to the town of Jasper. White water rafting often began below the falls to move downstream on the Athabasca River to Jasper.
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