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Sundance Provincial Park

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Province
  
Alberta

Nearest city
  
Slave Lake

Established
  
April 28, 1999

Sundance Provincial Park

Location
  
Yellowhead County, Alberta, Canada

Area
  
37 km (14 sq mi) (park) 79 km (31 sq mi) (total)

Governing body
  
Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation

Management
  
Alberta Culture and Tourism

Alberta s sundance provincial park


Sundance Provincial Park is a provincial park located in western Alberta, Canada, 100 km east of Jasper National Park.

Contents

The park is accessed via Emerson Creek Road, running north of Edson and Hinton, rhoughly parallel to the Yellowhead Highway.

The two parks

The park has two distinct parts. The first, surrounding the five Emerson lakes and bordering the Athabasca River, has camping, fishing, and a number of small trails circling the lakes. The second section, much larger, protects a series of hoodoos carved into the sandstone cliffs of the foothill valley, surrounding Sundance Creek and Sundance Lake. The "Wild Sculpture Trail" is located in this section of the park. The two parks have a total surface of 37 km², and an additional 42 km² "Special Management Zone" buffer surrounds the two areas.

References

Sundance Provincial Park Wikipedia