The Mahood Lake area is a great place to camp and explore.   The Deception Falls Trail is a short drive on a narrow, rough road.   From the Provincial Parks Campground, follow the road north until it crosses the Canim River.   This is the end of the maintained road and the rest of the route is manageable by all vehicles with slow driving.   Watch for a trailhead sign 6km along the road.   The trail in is a 1km hike up through birch, aspen, and fir forest.   The trail comes to a bluff lookout across from Deception Falls.

Deception Creek spills over the 50m falls in a volcanic gorge, then runs down to Mahood Lake.   The view is an impressive one, but it is hard to get a full picture photo without trees also in the view.   Cliffs line the gorge up the south side and it is unsafe to go down below the trees.   A rougher trail does climb up above the brink of the falls, but it does not improve the view.

The trail is a pleasant one up and down.   The falls can’t be seen or heard until the last minute or two of the hike, and the surprise is the height and volume of the falls, definitely worth the effort.