About Alexander Falls
Alexander Falls surprised us with its size and volume as it was a waterfall that we hadn’t planned on visiting until I accidentally came across it while researching other waterfalls along the Sea to Sky Highway. In fact, this waterfall wasn’t even along the highway, which explained why it was relatively obscure and not crowded at all. Nonetheless, as you can see from the photo at the top of its page, it more than held its own in the scenery department, and it was a blessing that our visit was as tranquil as it was. The falls consisted of a trio of main tiers with a cumulative drop of about 43m on Madeley Creek, which itself was a tributary of Callaghan Creek (the watercourse giving rise to Callaghan Valley). And since our visit was plagued by smoke from the unprecedented BC fires of 2017, it was also nice that the viewing area was right next to the large parking lot (see directions below).
The falls was near the Whistler Olympic Park, where they held a lot of the Nordic skiing events during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. I had read that because of the infrastructure to make the venue easier to access, it also made Alexander Falls easy to access as well. Prior to 2010, it was said that reaching the falls required driving on an out-of-the-way forest service road before hiking on a rough path to reach the viewpoint. I guess in light of countries becoming economically unstable from spending a lot of resources on building up Olympic infrastructure to host the games (e.g. Athens, Rio, and Sochi), this was one of the instances where the Olympics actually enhanced the host’s overall infrastructure and financial windfall.
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