Chinchaga Wildland Provincial Park
Chinchaga Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park in northwestern Alberta, Canada. The park is a environmentally protected tract of land within the of the greater Chinchaga wilderness area. It is a disjunct outlier of the Foothills Natural Region of Alberta. It was established on 15 December 1999. The greater Chinchaga area was identified in 1995 as an Environmentally Significant Area. It was designated by the Alberta Government as a protected area under the "Special Places" program. The park is administered by the Upper Peace Land Use Framework. Location The park is in Clear Hills County in northwestern Alberta about west of Manning and approximately east of the British Columbia border. The upper course of the Chinchaga River forms the Park's northern border while the southern border is the slopes of Halverson Ridge. Elevations in the Park range from less than at the Chinchaga River in the north to over at the top of Halverson Ridge. The park is extremely isolated and remote and without formal roads. The closest road is the Chinchaga Forestry Road, a high-grade gravel road running west from the Mackenzie Highway and crossing into British Columbia north of the Chinchaga River. Significant previous oil and