Peter Lougheed Provincial Park

Beautiful park with scenic hiking trails. It’s not too crowded, making for a peaceful outdoor experience. Bears can be in the area. There is a huge parking. A great place to enjoy nature!

One of my favorite places ever!! Been going here for years!! If you haven't been here, you should definitely experience it. Take Forestry Road 742 drive the whole thing you'll forever be thankful you did!

What a great find. This place is awesome. We camped there in early June. The campground was super clean and well taken care of. We stayed in the Bolton Creek campground, which had full RV hook up. A well stalked camp store. An ice cream shop. All this in the middle of nowhere. And would definitely stay again. We saw an abundance of wildlife. There are a ton of hiking trails. There is no cell service for ATT, but there is wifi at the main visitor center that is on 24/7. I definitely recommend this park and hope to return in the future.

This provincial park is terrific. Highly recommend to those who have not seen there yet. There are many day use areas and campsites there. The Upper Lake is a must-to-see place with spectacular views and hiking trails.

Beautiful park with lots of opportunities to see wildlife. We went to Upper Kananaskis for a picnic today and had a great time. This is such a beautiful area. It's not nearly as developed as Banff Provincial Park but the views are probably better. There are lots of hiking areas.

Maybe the most panoramic worthy place I have had the chance to see. Wildlife in its majestic habitat. Drive slow to enjoy the views and the sight of wildlife, also to avoid accidents as many animals are walking on the roads. Numerous trails to explore hiking or biking. The park is beautifully maintained! Very clean and well thought, with many areas to restore and have picnics. Just beautiful

Excellent park for a day hike or Snowshoeing in winter. They have multiple trails and you can get fairly accurate information regarding the difficulty level and accessibility. The park itself doesn't have lots of infrastructure and it is fairly self managed. Dont expect to find any restaurant there but they do have washrooms. Other than that you won't be disappointed with any hike here. I have attached some pictures from my recent Chester lake Snowshoeing trip.

It's just about 120 km from Calgary to the junction of Peter Lougheed and HWY 40. This place is my favorite for photograph, hiking and biking. The landscape has its own beauty for all seasons. I drive early in the morning to get the fresh air, fresh look of the mountains range with sun ray on the peak I feel like I am lost in the paradise. Along the hwy 40 you can discover some picnic areas for day use with firepit on site. From Peter Lougheed junction to Upper Lake, Lower Lake (man made lake). At the Upper Lake you can hike up to Rawson Lake and it is beautiful landscape there.

Some Yelpers and I went on a snowshoeing excursion to the Hogarth Lakes Snowshoe Loop. The highways through the park were ploughed, clear and well sanded. The signage on the highway was easy to read. The trail that we were on was active and it hadn't snowed in a few days so there was a solid path to follow, but if there hadn't been, the path was well marked with brightly coloured markers on the trees along the way. The trail was pretty easy and made for a nice little hike across a couple small lakes. The parking areas were clean which was a good sign as I didn't notice garbage containers provided which means people are packing everything out that they bring in.

This park is spectacular, literally words actually fail me I've never seen such beauty except in New Zealand. I've been traveling around to provincial and national parks for 40 years, most of my time has been spent in Ontario in Algonquin, but my favorite country in the world is New Zealand, and this trip yesterday to best provincial park in Alberta literally is the only place in my life I've seen that rivals New Zealand. Anyway I don't even want to post this review because I don't want the place to get as popular as it deserves, But I just noticed I have over 20,000 viewers of my yelp page so I guess you guys deserve some rewarding gossip and advice. I highly recommend, it's absolutely gorgeous. Look at these photos and video. The only problem is meeting an obnoxious German Ranger lady who freaked out and screamed at me because I parked my car somewhere that said no picnicking... She screamed that I had to park it on the dam, which actually was much more convenient for where we were trying to get to, We were fishing at the dam but there were no sign saying it's OK to park on the dam. Why would it be better to park on a dam where there is very narrow road, versus parking way off to the side where there is a massive field and picnic benches that were deserted to come out enough room to park 100 cars and not a single person there. I pointed out to her that there is a sign that said no picnicking, but I'm not eating anything, she screamed that it says no picnicking which means also no parking and no nothing!!!!! I didn't realize that no picnicking meant no parking! How did I live on my life without realizing that signs that warn no picnicking mean actually no doing anything at all!? I felt like telling her she was totally living up to the stereotype of overregulated Canadian indentured civil servants but why waste my time when I have such beautiful mountains and turquoise lakes to look at!