Northern Alberta Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
geographical region
About Northern Alberta
Located where the Rocky Mountains give way to the vast Interior Plains of North America, where the southern fringe of the great subarctic boreal forest meets the northernmost tongue of prairie grasses, and deep in the interior of the continent, this vast region is quintessentially Canadian in it's wildness and remoteness. Despite the short growing season found this far north, the Peace Country is of one Canada's richest agricultural areas, with most of the land in cereal crops and hay. Other agriculture here includes beef and bison production, poultry, pork, and apiculture (honey). The Wood Buffalo area is almost totally reliant on the extraction of ''bitumen'' from the earth (often called "oil sands" or "tar sands", though it's not exactly oil or tar, chemically speaking). This area has
Northern Alberta Travel Guide Sections
Our comprehensive guide covers 13 sections including: