Fort Assiniboine Sandhills Wildland Provincial Park

Fort Assiniboine Sandhills Wildland Provincial Park, established in 1997 in central Alberta, protects 7,903 hectares along the Athabasca River, including river islands and a striking range of landscapes shaped by glacial deposits, wind-formed inland dunes, wetlands, organic-soil forests, and the river’s floodplain. Its jack pine and lichen-covered sandhills, fens, old-growth mixedwood forest, and riparian habitats support uncommon mosses and lichens, several rare Alberta plants, and wildlife such as sandhill cranes, great gray owls, moose, beaver, and river otter. The park also preserves part of the historic Klondike Trail, first used in 1824–1825 as a Hudson’s Bay Company portage and later revived during the Klondike Gold Rush.

Alberta · Canada