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St. Paul, Alberta Millennium Pavilion at Cold Lake SE Branch Iron Horse Trail
Mallaig Staging Area Hiking/Cycling Trail - Jessie Lake, Bonnyville Beaver River Trestle
Mountain Biking Fort George and Buckingham HouseInterpretive Centre Whitney Lakes Provincial Park - EskersGarner Lake Provincial Park Horse Pulled Sleighes on the Iron Horse Trail
Pelicans Cross Country Skiing
Bud Miller Park, Lloydminster Vermilion Provincial Park
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Lac La BicheMission
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English BayProv. Rec. Area
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La Corey
CherryGroveBeaver
CrossingD.N.D.
Ardmore
Fort Kent
I.R. 149
Beaverdam
MurielLake
BonnyvilleBeach
PelicanNarrows
Anshaw
ColdLake
Bonnyville
Fresnoy
Franchere
HoselawRife
Glendon
Therien
Iron RiverTruman
Goodridge
Sugden
St. Lina
Mallaig
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Craigend
Briereville
RichLake
ForkLake
Helina
GoodfishLake
BoyneLake
I.R. 128
Garner LakeProv. Park
Kikino
I.R. 131
Bellis
Vilna
Stry
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Hamlin
Spedden
AshmontBoscombe
AbileneJunction
Owlseye
LottieLake
St. Brides
SaddleLake
I.R. 125
St. Vincent
Flat Lake
St. Paul
Lafond
St Edouard
Stony Lake
Lake Eliza
Angle Lake
NorthernValley
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Lindbergh
Riverview
Heinsburg
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WhitneyLakeProv.Park
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Clandonald
Willowlea
Streamstown
Marwayne
Hazeldine
Dewberry
Islay
Lea Park
Rusylvia
Derwent
Pathfinder
Chailey
MyrnamBeauvallonMorecambe
Musidora
Innisfree
Foisy
Brosseau
Duvernay
Ispas
Kaleland
Hairy Hill
Norma
Warwick
Fitzallen
RoyalPark
Whitford
Willingdon
Two Hills
Snipe Hills
Vegreville
Inland
Lavoy
AkasuHill
Ranfurly
Minburn
MannvilleClaysmore
BorradaileVermilion
Vermilion Prov. Park
Staplehurst
Blackfoot
Kitscoty
Gurneyville
Snake Hills
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Holyoke
I.R. 123
Frog Lake NationalHistoric Site of Canada
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Fort George Buckingham House Interpretive Centre
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Farmers Market
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Special Interest Sites:
1 Athabasca Heritage Tours2 Bonnyville & District Museum3 Jessie lake4 Giant Angus Shaw 5 Cold Lake Museum6 Kinosso Totem Poles7 Dewberry Valley Museum8 Giant Chuckwagon9 Tawatinaw Valley Alpine and Nordic Centre10 100 Foot Historical Mural11 Toula’s House of Clay12 Sturgeon River Historical Museum13 Giant Perogy14 Heinsburg Historic Railway Theme Park & Water Tower Campsite15 Innisfree Prairie Bank of Commerce Museum16 Heart Lake Beach17 Kikino Silver Birch Beach18 McArthur Park19 McArthur Place20 Portage College Museum of Aboriginal Art & Artifacts
21 Spruce Point Beach22 Young’s Beach23 Giant David Thompson24 Legal French Murals25 Paradise Valley Climb Through Time26 The Barr Colony Heritage Cultural Centre27 Mallaig Museum28 Mannville Historical Telephone Exchange Museum29 Musee Morinville Museum30 Giant Sausage31 Plamondon and District Museum32 Redwater and District Museum33 Saddle Lake Cultural Museum34 Smoky Lake Pioneer Museum35 The Great Pumpkin36 Musee-St. Paul-Museum37 Musee Historique de St. Paul Historical Museum38 Two Hills and District Museum39 Vegreville Regional Museum40 Vermillion Heritage Museum41 Giant Mushrooms of Vilna
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This map provides a general orientation to trails in northeast Alberta. All trail locations are approximate, and some trails may not appear on this map or be up to date. The suggested map series for detailed topographic information is the National Topographic Series (NTS).
The recreational trails shown on this map are unsupervised and are used at the personal responsibility and risk of persons using them.
The Alberta Trail Mapping Partnership is made possible through the combined efforts of and funding from the following organizations under the auspices of the Alberta Recreation Corridor and Trails Designation Program:
Alberta Tourism, Parks, Recreation, and CultureAlberta Sustainable Resource DevelopmentAlberta TrailNet SocietyAlberta Off-Highway Vehicle AssociationAlberta Snowmobile Association
Gratitude is expressed to all local clubs, groups, organizations, individuals and municipalities for their review, comments and updates in developing this map.
For more information or for map access please contact Alberta TrailNet at 877-987-2457.
Photo Credits:Alberta Snowmobile AssociationAlberta Tourism, Parks and RecreationAthabasca CountryMatt RakachIris & Del HuchulakKalyna CountryRiverland Recreational Trail SocietyTravel Alberta
Revised August 2011Printed in Canada
Beaver River
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Trails Northeast of Edmonton
The Lac La Biche area (www.laclabicheregion.com) has 150 lakes and more than 250 km of trails. Within the town of Lac La Biche, a walking and cycling trail follows the lakeshore to a statue commemorating mapmaker David Thompson, who established a nearby fur trade post in 1798.
This trail also leads north of town to Sir Winston Churchill Provincial Park, Alberta’s only island provincial park, with two well-marked walking trails winding through old-growth forest, skirting white sand beaches and leading to spectacular bird-watching viewpoints. Not far away, the Lac La Biche Mission celebrates the area’s rich history.
East of town, Lakeland Provincial Park offers both motorized and non-motorized trails, plus the province’s only backcountry canoe circuit, linking several lakes via short portages. Within the park’s mixed wood boreal forest, walking trails lead to glacial lakes with sandy beaches and fine bird and animal watching. A highlight is the historic Mosquito Lake Trail (now called Shaw Lake Trail), long used by Aboriginals, explorers and fur traders. It is now popular among hikers and cross-country skiers, the latter enjoying novice to expert groomed trails and a warm-up cabin with a cookhouse.
Just east of Vilna, a short detour north of Spedden takes you to Garner Lake Provincial Park, which offers good camping along with hiking and cycling trails. Continuing east, the route traverses rolling aspen parkland to Ashmont, a jumping-off point for fishing and exploring nearby lakes. Not far beyond, the Iron Horse Trail’s western leg ends at Abilene Junction, also known as Mile Zero.
Further east of Innisfree, Vermilion (www.vermilion.ca) has community trails along the Vermilion River as well as walking tours through its historic downtown. On the western outskirts of town, Vermilion Provincial Park features 23 km of trails through aspen parkland and along the river, offering excellent bird watching. The challenging cross-country ski trails that crisscross this scenic valley were the early training grounds of Olympic gold medalist Beckie Scott.
Straddling the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, the city of Lloydminster (www.lloydminster.ca) has an extensive walking and cycling trail system. The Barr Colony Heritage Cultural Centre tells the community’s early history and features a wildlife display.
Trails Along Highway 16 (west to east)
Alberta’s Iron Horse Trail(www.ironhorsetrail.ca or phone toll-free 888-645-4155)
The trail ambles through low rolling hills and skirts the Boscombe Community Centre, the site of country music jamborees, before arriving in Mallaig, which has a winter warming hut in a little replica train station. More
open farmland leads to Glendon, billed as the world’s pyrogy capital, complete with its 2.7 tonne fibreglass Giant Pyrogy and annual Pyrogy Festival. The trail now enters more
wooded terrain, passing close to Franchere Bay Provincial Recreation Area, where camping is available. A 500 m trestle is crossed near Moose Lake Provincial Park, offering camping, hiking trails and good bird watching and fishing.
Not far beyond, the Iron Horse Trail passes an old steam engine watering site before reaching the thriving community of Bonnyville (www.town. bonnyville.ab.ca), featuring a museum with some 250,000 artifacts. The
town borders on Jessie Lake, which has outstanding bird watching from paved interpretive trails with observation towers. More trails and recreation facilities can be found at Muriel Lake to the near south. The nearby Bonnyville North Loop is the area’s principal snowmobile trail.
The route now parallels Highway 28 for a long stretch through open farmland and passes the communities of Fort Kent and Ardmore before crossing a magnificent 1 km trestle high above the Beaver River. The trail soon reaches its northeast terminus in Cold Lake (www.coldlake.com), site of a Canadian Forces Base and its CF-18 fighter squadron. Two non-motorized trails wind through the city, while a third follows the shores of Cold Lake, one of Alberta’s largest lakes. Cold Lake features western Canada’s biggest inland marina, a provincial park, long beaches, big lake trout and northern pike, and more than 200 species of birds. The Alberta and Saskatchewan sections of the Trans Canadian Snowmobile Trail merge at Cold Lake.
After passing an abandoned railway siding called Owlseye, the trail travels through pleasant farmland to reach St. Paul (www.town.stpaul.ab.ca), home of the world’s first UFO landing pad and four monuments that celebrate the area’s Aboriginal history and cultural diversity. This regional centre has trails in town and at the adjacent Thérien Lakes (good bird watching). Lakeland Cross Country Ski Club’s trails are located just north of St. Paul (www.lakelandxcski.ca).
Continuing southeast, the trail rises above many sloughs and small lakes, beautifully set amongst hills, and meanders through remnants of the old Edouardville railway siding. It then travels along a narrow ravine, above which is a line of bison ranches known as Buffalo Alley. For a short stretch, the old rail bed follows the historic Carlton Trail.
The Iron Horse Trail climbs out of the forested Dog Rump Valley to a fine viewpoint and soon reaches Elk Point (www.elkpoint.ca), noted for its tall, carved wooden statue of Alberta’s first mapmaker, Peter Fidler, and a 30 m long historical mural. 11 km to the southeast, Fort George and Buckingham House Interpretive Centre (www.culture.alberta.ca/ museums/historicsiteslisting/ fortgeorgebuckingham) depict the area’s vibrant fur trade history. The Bangs Lake Snowmobile Trail can be accessed from Elk Point.
Back on the trail, a giant gravel pit marks the site where the Iron Horse Trail was started in 1993. That’s followed by scenic mixed forest offering glimpses of Simmo Lake and the hamlet of Lindbergh. Just east of Lindbergh, snowmobilers can access the Garnier Lakes Trail to Bonnyville. Beyond, the trail follows the wide Mooswa Valley past a salt plant and along the hilly banks of the North Saskatchewan River. Soon thereafter, the route ends in Heinsburg, a busy “ghost town” boasting one of Alberta’s last wooden water towers, an original train station and old-time music jamborees.
To the north of Heinsburg, Whitney Lakes Provincial Park has been sculpted by glaciers and subsequent erosion into a spectacular landscape of eskers, sand hills, hummocks and a mix of forests, meadows and wetlands. An extensive trail system links four lakes, with interpretive signs describing the abundant wildlife (migrating whooping cranes are sometimes seen). Some trails allow mountain biking, which ranges from easy family rides to more challenging, rolling terrain. The historic Carlton Trail can also be followed along the park’s southern edge.
Know Before You Go
To maximize enjoyment of these trails, gather additional details from nearby communities and recreation associations about the trails, current conditions, local sites of interest, area services and access points (see website information in the text that accompanies this map). Further visitor information can be obtained from:
Travel Alberta: 1-800-ALBERTA; www.travelalberta.com
Alberta’s Lakeland (includes Alberta’s Iron Horse Trail): 888-645-4155; www.albertaslakeland.com
Kalyna Country: 888-452-5962; www.kalynacountry.com
Lac La Biche Region: 877-623-9696
Alberta Culture and Community Spirit: www.culture.alberta.ca
Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation: www.tpr.alberta.ca
Alberta Sustainable Resource Development: www.srd.alberta.ca
Alberta TrailNet: www.albertatrailnet.com (see links to provincial trail user associations)
Alberta Provincial Campground Reservations:online www.Reserve.AlbertaParks.ca or toll-free 877-537-2757
This map includes designated, managed trails; many can be used year round. Trail quality and difficulty of use can vary considerably, with surface materials ranging from pavement and groomed snow to dirt, gravel and corduroy. Some trails are signed and regularly maintained; others are not. Even maintained trails can be challenging when wet or covered in fresh snowfall.
Temperatures can range from winter lows of -40 Celsius to summer highs in the upper 30s. Precipitation and harsh conditions can occur at any time. In late spring and summer, poison ivy and nettles may be present and bugs can be bothersome, especially in wet and shaded areas.
You may encounter wildlife, including black bears and large ungulates. Fall hunting is permitted in some areas; be aware, and dress and behave appropriately.
Trails may be remote from services or help. Carry sufficient food, water, clothing, first aid and emergency/survival supplies, repair gear, navigation equipment and a mobile phone.
Northeastern Iron Horse Trail: Abilene Junction to Cold Lake – 98 km
Southeastern Iron Horse Trail: Abilene Junction to Heinsburg – 88 km
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Vermilion
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