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Name Sub-region Established Image Coordinates Antelope Hill Provincial Park: Special Area No. 2: 2014-12-04 [2: Aspen Beach Provincial Park: Lacombe County
Alberta's system of provincial parks began with the striking of a committee on parks by then Premier J. E. Brownlee in 1929. This led to the passage of the Provincial Parks and Protected Areas Act in 1930 and the formation of the Provincial Board of Management to oversee the system. The first provincial parks were Aspen Beach Provincial Park ...
Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada, is the largest national park within Alberta's Rocky Mountains, spanning 11,000 km 2 (4,200 sq mi). It was established as Jasper Forest Park in 1907, renamed as a national park in 1930, and declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1984. Its location is north of Banff National Park and west of Edmonton.
Kakwa Wildland Provincial Park. Kakwa Wildland Park is a provincial park in the Rocky Mountain Foothills just east of the northern Canadian Rockies, in Alberta, Canada, [2] immediately east of the border with British Columbia at the 120th meridian west. The park is home to Alberta's tallest waterfall, the Kakwa Falls, which is 30 metres tall. [3]
Banff National Park is Canada's oldest national park, established in 1885 as Rocky Mountains Park. Located in Alberta's Rocky Mountains, 110–180 kilometres (68–112 mi) west of Calgary, Banff encompasses 6,641 square kilometres (2,564 sq mi) [3] of mountainous terrain, with many glaciers and ice fields, dense coniferous forest, and alpine ...
Lakeland Provincial Park. Pembina River Provincial Park. Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. Pigeon Lake Provincial Park. Spray Valley Provincial Park. Williamson Provincial Park. Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park. This is a list of protected areas of Alberta. Protected areas are managed by the Government of Canada or the Government of Alberta.
1931 — Cypress Hills Provincial Park was established in Saskatchewan. [5]1951 — Cypress Hills Provincial Park was established in Alberta. 1989 — On August 25, the governments of Alberta [6] and Saskatchewan [7] signed an agreement committing themselves to cooperation on ecosystem management, education, and park promotion.
Alberta Parks [5] Whitehorse Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park in west- central Alberta, Canada. The park was established on 26 August 1998 and had an area of 17,439.886 hectares (43,094.90 acres; 67.34 sq mi). [4] On 23 July 2002, the area was changed slightly to 17,325.54 ha (42,812.34 acres; 66.89 sq mi). [3]