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Wanuskewin Heritage Park is a National Historic Site of Canada located in Saskatchewan that preserves and celebrates over 6,000 years of Northern Plains Indigenous cultural heritage. The park features walking trails through an intact archaeological site that includes ancient bison jumps and tipi rin...

Grasslands National Park protects a significant expanse of shortgrass and mixed-grass prairie within Saskatchewan, Canada. Established in 1981, it’s notable for representing one of the largest remaining intact prairies on the continent. The park provides vital habitat for diverse plant and animal sp...

Douglas Provincial Park is a Saskatchewan provincial park on the south shore of Lake Diefenbaker, approximately 40 km east of Elrose. Its most distinctive feature is a large area of active parabolic sand dunes, part of the Great Sand Hills ecologically significant landscape, which sit alongside nati...

Last Mountain Lake National Wildlife Area is a protected wetland and prairie area at the north end of Last Mountain Lake in Saskatchewan, Canada. The site was first protected in 1887, when 1,025 hectares were reserved as breeding grounds for wildfowl, creating the first federal bird sanctuary in Nor...

Reindeer Lake is a large freshwater lake straddling the border between Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada. It is one of the largest lakes in the country, characterized by its deep, cold waters and irregular shoreline containing numerous islands. The lake drains northward via the Cochrane River, eve...

Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park is a protected area in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, established in 1973. The park spans the South Saskatchewan River, preserving a historic crossing that was historically used by Indigenous peoples, Métis, and early fur traders. The landscape features a...

Kernen Prairie is a protected research site managed by the University of Saskatchewan, located near the city of Saskatoon. It preserves a significant expanse of unbroken native fescue grassland, serving as a vital remnant of the natural ecosystem that once covered the region. The area is utilized by...

Buffalo Pound Provincial Park is a nature reserve located in southern Saskatchewan, Canada. The park is distinguished by its rolling landscape of native tall-grass prairie and its location along the shores of Buffalo Pound Lake, a reservoir built in the 1940s to supply water to Regina and Moose Jaw....

The Frenchman River Valley Badlands are an eroded landscape within the West Block of Grasslands National Park in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada. The Frenchman River passes through mixed-grass prairie where exposed sediment, steep slopes, coulees, and other landforms record the effects of water an...

The Old Man on His Back Prairie and Heritage Conservation Area is a protected expanse of native mixed-grass prairie located in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada. Managed by the Nature Conservancy of Canada, the preserve covers approximately 13,000 acres of vital grassland habitat. It is distinguishe...

Big Muddy Badlands is an eroded valley in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, historically used as a hideout by outlaws including Butch Cassidy in the late 19th century and notable for its hoodoos and Castle Butte landmark.

The Moose Mountain Medicine Wheel is an ancient Indigenous stone monument located in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada. The geoglyph features a central cairn connected to an outer ring by a series of radiating spokes, characteristic of similar monuments found across the northern plains. Archaeologic...

Last Mountain House Provincial Historic Park is a protected archaeological site in Saskatchewan associated with a Hudson's Bay Company trading post established in 1869. The post operated during the nineteenth-century fur trade, and the park preserves its remains within a prairie landscape rather tha...

Prince Albert National Park is a protected area in central Saskatchewan, Canada, established in 1927 and administered by Parks Canada. Its landscape lies near the transition between prairie and boreal forest and includes lakes, wetlands, aspen woodland, and coniferous forest; Waskesiu Lake is its pr...

The Minton Turtle Effigy in Saskatchewan, Canada, is a large indigenous boulder effigy shaped like a turtle, notable for its prominent location on a hillside overlooking the plains.