Alberta horseback riding
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Horseback riding in Alberta

Alberta, Canada horseback riding adventures provide an excellent opportunity to explore the diverse landscapes of the province.

Alberta horseback riding, Canada travel An Alberta horseback riding adventure provides an opportunity to explore prairie grasslands, wildflower meadows, canyons, wilderness parks, river banks, alpine lakes, mountains and valleys of coulees and hoodoos.

There are guest ranches with accommodations, working ranches, esquestrian centres, stables and cattle drive adventures.

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The horseback riding tour and guiding companies provide the horses, the lessons and an interpretive guide. However, horseback riding tours vary. There are short day rides, day camps, cattle drives and multi day horseback riding adventures.

The tour companies which provide overnight horseback riding adventures may provide extras including accommodations like remote cabins, tenting sites, guest ranches and lodges... plus meals, entertainment and transportation to and from staging areas.

An Alberta horseback riding adventure provides an opportunity to explore prairie grasslands, wildflower meadows, canyons, wilderness parks, river banks, alpine lakes, mountains and valleys of coulees and hoodoos.

Bring your own horse and there are some staging areas for horseback riding in some of the parks located in Alberta. There are some horseback riding trails with staging areas in the Rocky Mountains in the Banff National Park, Jasper National Park and in Kananaskis Country.

In Central Alberta some of the horseback riding destination and trails to make note of include the Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Area near Edmonton; the Willmore Wilderness Park near Grande Cache and the Bighorn Trail near Hinton.

In South Alberta some of the horseback riding destinations include the River Valley Wilderness Park near Fort Macleod and the Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park located southeast of Medicine Hat.