Kananaskis Country is a multi-use area west of Calgary, Alberta, Canada in the foothills and front ranges of the Canadian Rockies. The area is named for the Kananaskis River, which was named by John Palliser in 1858 after a Cree acquaintance. Covering an area of approximately 4,000 km2 (1,500 sq mi), Kananaskis Country was formed by the Alberta Government in 1978 to provide an assortment of land uses and designations. Land uses include resource extraction activities, recreation, power generation, and residential communities. Land designations include public land and protected areas.
The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo is a specialized municipality in northeast Alberta, Canada. It is the second largest municipality in Alberta by area and is home to oil sand deposits known as the Athabasca oil sands.
William A. Switzer Provincial Park is a provincial park in Alberta, Canada.
Bonaparte Provincial Park is an 11,811 hectare provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. It is located within the Bonaparte Plateau.
Hamber Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located 130 kilometres (80.7 mi) north of Golden. Straddling the Great Divide on the provincial boundary with Alberta, the park is surrounded on three sides by Jasper National Park and protects the headwaters of the Wood River at Fortress Lake.
Spray Valley Provincial Park is a provincial park located east of the Rocky Mountains, along the Spray River in western Alberta, Canada.
Obed Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in Alberta, Canada, located 49 kilometres (30 mi) west of Edson and 37 kilometres (23 mi) east of Hinton, on the north side of the Yellowhead Highway.
Birch Mountains Wildland is a park in the Birch Mountains in Alberta. It contains a free roaming wood bison herd.
Peace River Wildland Provincial Park is located in the valley of the Peace River stretching from Dunvegan Provincial Park to the Smoky River confluence and 30 kilometers upstream of the Smoky River valley. Also included in the park is the Spirit River valley at the confluence with the Peace. While most of the park lies in the Birch Hills County, some of it is in the Northern Sunrise County immediately south of the Town of Peace River.
Kazan Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park in northern Alberta, Canada that is 659,397 hectares in size. It is located in the far northeast corner of the province within the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, encompassing the majority of lands north of Lake Athabasca and east of the Slave River and Rivière des Rochers adjacent to Wood Buffalo National Park. The Government of Alberta announced its creation through its approval of the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan in August 2012.
Gipsy-Gordon Wildland Park is a wildland provincial park in northern Alberta, Canada that is 158,542 ha in size. It is located in the northeast portion of the province within the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, encompassing lands south of the Clearwater River and west of the Saskatchewan boundary that surround Gipsy Lake Wildland Provincial Park. The Government of Alberta announced its creation through its approval of the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan in November 2000.
Dillon River Wildland Park is a wildland provincial park in northern Alberta, Canada that is 191,544 ha in size. It is located in the northeast portion of the province within the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, encompassing lands west of the Saskatchewan boundary between Gipsy-Gordon Wildland Park to the north and the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range to the south. The Government of Alberta announced its creation through its approval of the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan in August 2012.
Fidler-Greywillow Wildland Park is a provincial park located in northeastern Alberta, Canada within the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. Summer activities include activities like back-country camping, hunting, kayaking, and fishing, and Winters offer Snowmobiling. Random backcountry camping is allowed on Bustard Island.
Porcupine Hills Provincial Park is the newest provincial park in the Canadian Province of Saskatchewan. It was created in 2018 through the amalgamation of five pre-existing provincial recreation sites south-east of the town of Hudson Bay. The park is in the Porcupine Provincial Forest in the Porcupine Hills, which is a geographical feature in eastern Saskatchewan and western Manitoba. The hills are part of a range of hills called the Manitoba Escarpment.
Birch River Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park located in Wood Buffalo, northern Alberta, Canada. It was established on 14 May 2018 and covers 331,832 hectares. The park borders Wood Buffalo National Park to the north, Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland Provincial Park to the east, and has a short southern border with Birch Mountains Wildland Provincial Park.
Bob Creek Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park located in the Ranchland Municipal District, in southern Alberta, Canada. It was established on 12 May 1999 and is 20,777.69 hectares in area. The park is located approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) west of Claresholm and located between Highway 40 to the west and Highway 22 to the east and largely north of the Oldman River. Much of the eastern border of the park is shared with Black Creek Heritage Rangeland.
Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park in Wood Buffalo, northern Alberta, Canada. Kitaskino, means “our land” in Cree and Nuwenëné means “our land” in Dene; the two languages are spoken by the First Nation communities in the area. The park as created on 8 March 2019 had an area of 161,880 hectares. It was expanded on 26 January 2022 to 314,510 hectares. The park is a successful collaboration between the Mikisew Cree First Nation, the governments of Alberta and Canada, and petroleum industry partners in the area. Teck Resources, Imperial Oil, and Cenovus Energy returned oil leases to the Athabasca oil sands which underlay the area. This enabled the land to be turned into a park. After the initial creation of the park in 2019, the Milisew First Nation worked with Burgess Canadian Resources to relinquished their oilsands leases which led to the addition of 152,000 hectares to the park.
Whitemud Falls Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park in Wood Buffalo, northern Alberta, Canada. The park was established on 15 November 2000 and has an area of 3,842.55 hectares. The park is part of the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan.
Stony Mountain Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park in Wood Buffalo, northern Alberta, Canada. The park was established on 20 December 2000 and has an area of 13,974 hectares. The park is part of the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan.
