Discover Alberta’s breathtaking beauty on foot! With varied landscapes comes a wide range of trail options for hikers of all levels. Whether you’re heading out into the alpine backcountry or taking the kids for a nature walk, start planning your Alberta hiking adventure here.
Dinosaur Provincial Park is one of our favourite destinations in the Canadian Badlands. It has some of the province’s most impressive badlands scenery, with flat-topped buttes, mushroom-capped hoodoos, sandstone formations, and giant cottonwood trees; the landscape alone is enough...
Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park, located near Trochu, Alberta, is a lesser-known destination in Alberta’s Badlands. The park offers extensive, meandering hiking trails through coulees and grasslands along the Red Deer River Valley. It also protects a unique natural landscape that...
For a taste of everything Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park offers, hike the Matapiiski (Hoodoo) Trail. It takes you through sandstone columns and hoodoos, across grasslands, offering sweeping vistas of the Milk River Valley, coulees and the Sweet Grass Hills (Katoyiss) behind it. It also...
Every parent knows that hiking with kids can be a bit of a crapshoot. You can plan an amazing day outdoors as a family, but it’s always a gamble how they’ll react. Choose a path that’s too long, and you might be carrying them back to the car. Pick a hike that is too boring, and they might...
Whitney Lakes Provincial Park is truly a hidden gem in Alberta’s Lakeland Region. This small park is home to four lakes nestled in the forest, a campground, hiking and biking trails and sandy beaches. It also protects something very special: one of the province’s most significant...
If you’re looking for an easy hike in Banff National Park that delivers beautiful mountain scenery without a time commitment, the Johnson Lake Trail should be on your list. Only a 10-minute drive from the Banff townsite, this peaceful lakeside walk offers stunning views of Cascade...
Jasper National Park has always been one of our favourite places to hike as a family. With lots of nature to explore close to the welcoming town of Jasper, kid-friendly adventures are easy to find. Picture the combination of mountain views, turquoise lakes, wildlife sightings and well...
The Jacques Lake Trail in Jasper National Park is a straightforward in-and-out trail that follows a series of small lakes and streams to picturesque Jacques Lake. The trail is relatively flat, runs through a beautiful, spruce forest, and leads to the Jacques Lake backcountry campground...
Chester Lake: A go-to snowshoe (or hike) in Kananaskis Country, Alberta The Chester Lake Trail in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park stands out as a go-to hike in Kananaskis, especially in the winter. The trail gives the best samplings of scenery in the Canadian Rockies, including Christmas...
Sir Winston Churchill Provincial Park, just outside of the town of Lac La Biche in Alberta, is one of our favourite provincial parks to visit. The park comprises eight islands, with the largest, called ‘Big Island’, being home to the campground, facilities, developed trails, and beaches...