Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park

Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, also known as Áísínai’pi, is a sacred Indigenous cultural landscape in southern Alberta along the Milk River, famed for sandstone cliffs and hoodoos containing the greatest concentration of rock art on the North American Great Plains. With more than 50 petroglyph sites and thousands of carvings and paintings, it preserves evidence of belief, daily life, and changing plains cultures over thousands of years, alongside traces of human presence reaching back about 9,000 years. Shaped by ancient seas and later glacial meltwater, the area also includes wildlife-rich prairie habitat. Protected through park and heritage designations, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.

Alberta · Canada