Now Julie and I felt that there was quite a bit of confusion regarding this waterfall. That was because we noticed that there were numerous "false" trail or unsigned trails that didn't necessarily lead to the waterfall. It wasn't until we followed a trail with a signposted fork on the way back to the car park did we realize that we followed some dodgy advise or hiking directions from the internet on the way in.

So we'll first explain the trail on the shorter more straightforward 0.7km (each way) route before telling you about our little adventure.

From the car park, proceed on the signposted trail and just stay on it until you see a signposted fork where the path on the right leads to Silverton Falls (as suggested by the sign). Once you follow this path, take it until you reach a three-way or four-way fork (it depends on how you interpret the false trails here) where the path on the left starts to ascend noticeably.

At this intersection, do not go straight and do not go right. We'll explain later why when we talk about our little adventure.

After one long switchback, the trail then traverses a short landslip section before eventually ending at an overlook of the top two tiers of Silverton Falls. The remaining tiers continue to tumble and drop below this vantage point, but we weren't able to see them given the ruggedness of the terrain.

It looked like there was a steep scrambling path descending towards the pool at the base of the second waterfall, but it didn't look particularly safe so we didn't do it. Returning back the way you came towards the car park, the round trip distance should be 1.4km (less than a mile).

OK, so with that said, now we'll discuss the route that we took on the way in...

From the car park, we followed the main trail as noted above, but a short distance after we passed the signpost and mini-shelter, we noticed an unsigned fork leading to the right. And since the map signs indicated that the falls is towards the right on Silverton Creek while the lakes veered left, we decided to take the unsigned fork.

Ultimately, this trail led past a pair of yellow-green signs labeled "2" before reaching another fork right in front of a footbridge. It was here that I recalled from the internet literature that we shouldn't cross the bridge and take the trail following the creek to the left instead. So we did that.

Eventually after walking through a somewhat narrow trail (it was at this time that we wondered why this trail seemed so dodgy compared to the main trail we had left several minutes ago), we reached a junction where there was a trail that veered left as it went uphill as well as a trail that continued following the creek to our right.

So we followed the creekside trail, which involved ducking under fallen trees. Eventually, we reached the base of Silverton Falls, but all we were able to see was the unsatisfying bottommost tier. The remaining tiers were difficult to see without wading in the creek at this point. That was when we realized that we went the wrong way and we backtracked to the junction.

Once we got to the familiar junction, we then went uphill in what turned out to be a long switchback. Eventually, it crossed a landslip and ended up at a perch where we saw the upper two tiers of the Silverton Falls.

And when we had our fill of the falls, we took the shorter more straightforward way that we should've taken in the first place (as mentioned earlier on this page).

The car park for Rockbound Lake is the trailhead for Silverton Falls.

Alternatively, we could drive north on Hwy 1 from Banff to the Hwy 1A/Hwy 93 exit a little over 20 minutes away. Then turn right and follow the directions as above towards Rockbound Lake car park.