Top 10 Sites in the Rocky Mountain Front South of Banff

South of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site in Alberta, a number of sites are worth awareness. More details on each site may be found at sites.google.com/site/enviroramble. Look for the South-Central Rocky Mountain forests ecoregion description on the opening page and go to Continental Divide Ranges.

1. Bow Valley Provincial Park--Spray Falls and Quaite Valley
2. Canmore Nordic Centre Provincial Park--site of 1988 Winter Olympics
3. Elbow-Sheep Wildland Provincial Park--5 mountain ranges
4. Evan-Thomas Provincial Recreation Area--60 km of trails
5. Frank Slide Interpretive Center--1903 rock slide disaster
6. Peter Lougheed  Provincial Park--23 glaciers and Kananaskis Canyon
7. Plateau Mountain Ecological Reserve--ice caves and blockfields
8. Sheep River Provincial Park--Sheep River Falls
9. Spray Valley Provincial Park--Spray Lake Reservoir
10. Waterton Lakes National and Prince of Wales Hotel National Historic Site