Cypress Hills Park & Fort Walsh

Rainbow Trout

Rainbow Trout

What gives the Rainbow Trout the pink blush in his colorful trout cheeks?

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How to Get Here

Just off the beaten – or driven – path

Almost midway between Calgary and Regina, Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park offers two different access points – from the Alberta side or from the Saskatchewan side.

Either way, it’s a short half-hour drive south from the Trans Canada Highway.

If you’re arriving from Havre, Montana, Highway 41 north will take you directly into the park on the Alberta side, while Highway 21 will lead you to the Saskatchewan side.

Distance from turnoff at Maple Creek Junction, Saskatchewan:

  • Calgary, Alberta – 423km
  • Medicine Hat, Alberta – 130km
  • Regina, Saskatchewan – 380km
  • Swift Current, Saskatchewan – 138km


Distance from turnoff at Highway 41 Junction, Alberta:

  • Calgary, Alberta – 325km
  • Medicine Hat, Alberta – 32km
  • Regina, Saskatchewan – 446km
  • Swift Current, Saskatchewan – 184km


Distance to park from U.S. border: 75km

 

View from conglomerate cliffs

 

Regional Map

Make a Journey of It!

  • OLD FORTS TRAIL - an International Trail celebrating the historic links between Fort Walsh, Fort Benton, Fort Assinniboine, Fort Battleford and Fort Whoop Up.

 

  • THE GREAT CANADIAN FOSSIL TRAIL - links "dinosaur" sites and communities across Western Canada and Northwestern U.S.A.

 

  • TRANS CANADA TRAIL - our national shared-use recreational trail linking Canada "from sea to sea to sea".

 

  • CANADIAN BADLANDS TRAIL - As part of the Badlands Trail, Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park boasts amazing landscapes.  Millions of years of sedimentary build up and erosion creted the Cypress Uplands, unique islands in the priaries - the tallest point in Canada between the rocky Mountains and Labrador!

 

 

  • RED COAT TRAIL -  Follow the footsteps of the North West Mounted Police when they marched west in 1874 to quell the whiskey trade.