Willmore Wilderness Park

Willmore Wilderness Park protects about 4,600 square kilometres of rugged, undeveloped mountain and foothill country in west-central Alberta along the north side of Jasper National Park. Created in 1959 as Wilderness Provincial Park and renamed in 1965 for Norman Willmore, it preserves river valleys, alpine tundra, high ridges, glaciers, and peaks including 3,100-metre Resthaven Mountain. Major rivers of the Mackenzie drainage rise or flow through it, and its roadless landscape is managed for conservation and low-impact backcountry travel. The area also preserves a deeper human history of Iroquois hunters, ties with Shuswap communities, Métis and Iroquois heritage families, First Nations burial sites, and traces of trapping, forestry, and coal mining.

Alberta · Canada