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I'm putting "Sideways Falls" or "Big Bend Falls" in quotes because I believe that these are informal names for this fairly conspicuous waterfall that can be spotted right off the road. I stole these names from Bryan Swan's Pacific Northwest waterfall survey as well as Leon Turnbull's Waterfalls West, respectively. I suppose giving it these names sounds a lot better than "that waterfall seen from a pullout at a big bend in Hwy 93" or something like that.
In any case, viewing this waterfall is pretty much a cinch once you find it (we had a little help from our GPS). Of course, photographing it would probably require a telephoto lens. Otherwise, the falls might look somewhat puny in a typical photograph without the powerful zoom.
Directions: We found this waterfall while heading about 2km south (downhill) of the large car park for both Bridal Veil Falls and Panther Falls along the Icefields Parkway (Hwy 93). You can also think of this is as being 16km south of the Icefields Center (which itself is 103km south of Jasper and 186km north of Banff).
Look for a large pullout as you're descending on a wide bend towards its bottom. That pullout is where you can park the car and look ahead of you for the waterfall tumbling down the mountainside.
I was at Rearguard Falls as a tourist in August 2010. I stumbled into rafters who told me I could not go down the path they were on, to the base of the falls...[more]