Elbow Falls is a small set of waterfalls along the Elbow River, west of the hamlet of Bragg Creek within Kananaskis Improvement District, Alberta.
In the dry season, the falls reach a height of six metres (20 ft), while in June, during high discharges, the river fills up and the waterfall is only three metres (9.8 ft) high.
[1] A day use area (i.e. picnics) is maintained at the falls site, and also serves as the start/finish of a short one kilometre (0.62 mi) long hiking trail.
The Elbow River overflowed its banks and destroyed all of the picnicking area and most of the paved trails.
The riverbed itself also suffered major destruction, now being replaced by mounds of rock, rather than soil and trees.