I was born and raised in Edmonton, the capital city of Alberta in Canada. Alberta gets the most attention for its national parks like Jasper and Banff, but there is so much more to it than that. For vast boreal forest in the north to desert-like lanscapes and hoodoos in the south, I explore some of the best my home province and other parts of Canada have to offer.
Red Deer is Alberta’s third largest city. Located almost exactly halfway between Edmonton and Calgary, it has for much of its history been considered an important stopping point between the two. The local indigenous Cree people named the Red Deer River, after which the city is named, Waskasoo Seepee, or Elk River, the elk sometimes …
Waterton Lakes National Park is one of the most bucket-list worthy things to do in Alberta, Canada. The park occupies the southwestern corner of Alberta and is often overshadowed by Alberta’s two larger Rocky Mountain national parks to the north, Banff and Jasper. Waterton offers everything that Jasper and Banff do, but packed into a …
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Skating on frozen lakes, climbing walls of ice, exploring icy canyons, or gazing at snowy peaks from a hot tub – Canada’s Jasper National Park is abundant in life-changing experiences in winter. Growing up in Edmonton, capital of Alberta, I’ve been lucky enough to visit Jasper in winter nearly every year since I was a …
Banff National Park is the first, and to this day most popular of Alberta’s and Canada’s national parks. Dotting the park’s majestic landscape is a series of lakes so vibrantly turquoise in color that one can’t help but wonder whether Parks Canada is secretly dumping powdered paint into them at night to attract the masses …
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Jasper National Park is the second-most visited of Alberta’s five national parks. But compared to its more popular cousin to the south (Banff), Jasper is nearly twice as large, and every bit as beautiful, making it one of the most compelling places to visit in Alberta. You may notice that there seems to be jaw-dropping …
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I don’t know exactly where, when, or why it all started. But at some point in the past, people started to construct ridiculously large roadside attractions in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, the prairie provinces of Canada. Today these are some of the quirkiest things to do in Alberta. Referred to today as the “Giants of …
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Most years, to celebrate my birthday, I like to plan a small trip with family and friends to celebrate my birthday. In 2020, of course, my options were limited. I decided on doing a hotel staycation as close to home as possible. Ideally it would be somewhere memorable, fun for the kids, and have a …
Of Canada’s 38 national parks, four of them are located in Alberta, and another is shared between Alberta and the Northwest Territories. These five Alberta national parks preserve some 63,000 square kilometers of wilderness space, an area larger than the country of Croatia, and four out of five of them are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. …
Alberta might just be Canada’s most geographically diverse province. Typically classified a “prairie province”, it offers so much more than that, from the snowy peaks of the Rocky Mountains and vast boreal forests to unending grasslands and arid, dinosaur fossil-bearing badlands. Alberta’s scenic bounties and abundance of wildlife are the pride of locals, while Alberta’s …
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Ice bubbles are a bizarre yet breathtaking natural spectacle. Seeing them is truly a bucket list experience (see my full list of bucket list-worthy things to do in Alberta here!) Abraham Lake in Alberta is one of the best places in the Canadian Rockies and the world to witness this stunning phenomenon. Surreal photographs of …
