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Elbow Valley Trail
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: May–Sep · highs 13–21 °C (55–70 °F)
- J-3°-13°21
- F0°-12°22
- M4°-8°37
- A9°-4°50
- M13°1°90
- J18°5°125
- J21°8°77
- A21°8°80
- S16°3°65
- O9°-2°35
- N1°-8°27
- D-4°-13°20
Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
Trail facts
- Difficulty
- Easy (2/10) (hiking (T1) · OpenStreetMap SAC scale (ODbL))
- Length (signed)
- 9.4 km · 5.8 mi (OSM distance tag)
- Mapped length
- 9.9 km · 6.2 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Plain
- Paddy's Flat (GeoNames)
- Nearest town
- 12 km SW of Bragg Creek (Municipal District of Rocky View No. 44, Alberta) · GeoNames
- Best months
- May–Sep
- Country
- Canada
- Region
- Alberta
- Continent
- North America
- Route type
- Local route
- Ref
- ElbVlTr
- SAC scale (OSM)
- hiking
- Route centre
- 50.8807, -114.7473
- Route start
- 50.8949, -114.7062
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 20268188
How it’s scored
Easy (2/10). Official rating: hiking (T1) · OpenStreetMap SAC scale (ODbL).
A score is omitted when we do not have an official rating or enough measured length and elevation gain to compute one. Nothing is guessed. Read the NPS method: https://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisit/how-to-determine-hiking-difficulty.htm
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.