Weeping Wall

Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

About Weeping Wall


Hiking Distance: roadside
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Date first visited: 2010-09-21
Date last visited: 2010-09-21

Waterfall Latitude: 52.15497
Waterfall Longitude: -117.00576

Waterfall Safety and Common Sense

The Weeping Wall apparently pertained to a particular cliff wall where supposedly many waterfalls could be coming down at once under the right conditions. Well, as you can see from the photo above, we didn’t get to see this phenomenon though we did spot a couple of noticeable strands of falling water though there might have been a few other harder-to-see ones that didn’t translate well into this photograph.

I guess the right conditions for this wall to weep impressively involved us either being here when the snow would rapidly melt (i.e. possibly late June or July depending on the snow pack and how warm the weather would be) or in the midst of a downpour where hopefully the clouds wouldn’t be blocking the views. We were here in September 2010, and we paid attention to the waterfalls during a day when a snow storm was clearing.

So given this ephemeral characteristic, I’d argue this would marginally count as a major waterfall. Nonetheless, they did devote a pullout and signpost pointing out this wall so we gave it a little special treatment as a result.

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We pulled over for the just-mentioned signposted pullout about 5.5km south of the “Sideways Falls” pullout or 21.5km south of the Icefields Center (home of the Athabasca Glacier and the Glacier View Inn). The signpost and pullout are on the west side (right as you’re headed south) of the Hwy 93.

Meanwhile, further south from this wall, we saw a couple other cascades that had somewhat higher flow than the strands of the Weeping Wall. I don’t think these waterfalls had names, but I recalled one was just under 5km further south on Hwy 93 while the other was a little further to the south than that. The first of these had a signpost pointing out Cirrus Mountain.

For additional context, Jasper was 365km (under 4 hours drive) west of Edmonton and 412km (5 hours drive) northwest of Calgary.

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