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Highway 40 is a south–north highway in western Alberta, Canada. [2] It is also named Bighorn Highway and Kananaskis Trail in Kananaskis Country.Its segmented sections extend from Coleman in the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass northward to the City of Grande Prairie and is currently divided into four sections.
Kananaskis Country includes four areas of Crown land (also known as provincial land or public land) called Public Land Use Zones (PLUZ). The largest is the Kananaskis Country Public Land Use Zone which takes up over a quarter of Kananaskis Country's land area. The other public land uses zones are Sibbald, Cataract, and McLean.
Peter Lougheed Provincial Park is in Kananaskis Country about 90 kilometres (56 mi) west of Calgary, along the Kananaskis Trail in Alberta, Canada. This park is within Alberta's Rocky Mountains. The park was originally named Kananaskis Provincial Park, but was renamed after Peter Lougheed, premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985, when he retired ...
Upper Kananaskis Lake, along with the Lower Kananaskis Lake, is located in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. The lake is part of a series of natural and man made lakes in the Kananaskis and Bow Valleys used for hydro electric power, flood control , and water reserves for the Bow River water users such as the city of Calgary.
Kananaskis Village is an unincorporated community in Alberta's Rockies within the Kananaskis Country park system in the Kananaskis Improvement District of Alberta, Canada. [1] It is located approximately 26 km (16 mi) south of the Trans-Canada Highway ( Highway 1 ), 3 km (1.9 mi) west of Highway 40 (Kananaskis Trail) via Mt. Allan Drive and ...
On the north, south and east, the park abuts the Rocky Mountains Forest Reserve and the Kananaskis Country Forest Land Use Zone. [2] [7]: 5 It is part of the Kananaskis Country park system. [8] Alberta Highway 546, the main access to the park, is closed from 1 December to 15 May each year west of the Sandy McNabb Recreation Area.
It flows south and is paralleled by the Kananaskis Trail between Elbow-Sheep Wildland Provincial Park, Don Getty Wildland Provincial Park, and Emerson Creek Park. It turns east and flows along Highway 541 and through the community of Longview. Continuing east, it passes through High River, ending when it enters the Bow River southeast of Calgary.
The original lease was granted in 1967, which pre-dates both Kananaskis Country itself by eleven years, as well as the provincial parks which now surround it. The resort is located near the Kananaskis Trail (115 km west of Calgary). It is owned and operated by Fortress Mountain Holdings Ltd.