Wednesday, 18 December 2024

A Selection of Back-Road Trips Around Central and Southern Alberta

A Selection of Back-Road Trips Around Central and Southern Alberta

There are two main aspects to a road trip: the journey and the destination. Sometimes the trip is all about the journey, sometimes it’s all about the destination. Usually it is a little of both.

This collection of back-roads journeys feature a little bit of both of these aspects. Some accounts are more about the ‘journey’, such as a road trip on scenic Highway 22. or the Forestry Trunk roads. Others are more about the ‘destination’, such as a visit to the Bar U Ranch or the Viking Ribstones. I hope you will enjoy reading some of these accounts and maybe give them a spin for yourself.

Southwest

Southwest 1 – A Road Trip on Scenic Highway 22

Southwest 2 – The Equestrian Competitions at Spruce Meadows (Calgary)

Southwest 3 – The Bar U Ranch, south of Long View

Southwest 4 – Kananaskis Country

Southwest 5 – Blackfoot Crossing

Southwest 6 – Back-roads, from the Prairies to the Foothills: Brazeau Dam Trip

Southwest 7 – A Back-roads Trip to Hinton and the Forestry Trunk Roads

Southeast

Southeast 1 – Stettler Train Trip – Living History on the Alberta Prairie Railway

Southeast 2 – Viking Rib Stones – Indigenous Heritage and Tradition

Southeast 3 – Drumheller, via the Backroads of Central Alberta

Southeast 4 – Cypress Hills – An Island on the Prairie that Escaped the Ice Age

Southeast 5 – On the Road with Bronco Billy, A Trucking Journal – Southern Alberta Section

Southeast 6 – A Back-road Trip to Bittern Lake and Lake Miquelon Provincial Park

Southeast 7 – A Back-roads Trip to Rochon Sands, Buffalo Lake Provincial Park

The reader may wonder “what about the Ice-fields Parkway?” or “where is a visit to Banff?” I would answer, that these famous destinations are covered very nicely by other books. This account is meant to focus on some less traveled areas, thus the “back-roads” descriptor.

I should note that the northern half of Alberta also has a lot of interesting back-roads journeys, but those are material for some other books which will be published in due time.

I should also note that the trips covered here are also covered in two companion works, which break this list into southeast and southwest. This aggregation puts all of the accounts in those two books into one convenient place.

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