Watchtower Trail

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greenrowan

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Trail stats

Distance: 5.86 mi
Elevation gain: 49 ft
Technical difficulty: Moderate
Elevation loss: 1,913 ft
Max elevation: 6,458 ft
TrailRank: 24
Min elevation: 4,572 ft
Trail type: One Way

Time: 4 hours 3 minutes
Coordinates: 456
Uploaded: August 18, 2014
Recorded: August 2014

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near Jasper Park Lodge, Alberta (Canada)

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Itinerary description

We hiked to the Watchtower campground from the Skyline trail. The Watchtower basin is beautiful, however, the hike out is rugged. Trail is not well maintained and contained many stream crossings and trail was sometimes hard to find. The campground was easy to locate coming from the Skyline, but would be more difficult to find hiking in on the trail as it was somewhat difficult to find the trail out.

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Trail Head

Broken Wagon

At this point in the trail there is a broken wagon. It is about the halfway point of the trail. Hiking toward the campground, the trail become significantly more rugged and narrow, with more frequent stream crossings. Trail significantly improves at this point if hiking toward trail head.

Watchtower Campground

Pretty nice, 4 site, backcountry campground.

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