Black Creek Heritage Rangeland is an Alberta Parks protected area in southwest Alberta between the Livingstone Range of the Rocky Mountain Front, the Oldman River, and Highway 22.
Alberta Parks says it surrounds one of Alberta's unique ecological areas known as "The Whaleback." Together with Bob Creek Wildland Provincial Park, it protects the largest intact tract of montane landscape in Alberta while supporting elk herds, grizzly bears, wolves, and historic land uses.
Black Creek is a careful-access landscape for hikers and equestrian users. Alberta Parks lists equestrian use and backcountry hiking, but the official page also stresses that the land is subject to grazing leases and regulatory conditions on recreational access.
Visitors are asked to leave all gates as found, avoid harassing cattle, and slow down when livestock are near or crossing roads. Camping and campfires are prohibited within Black Creek Heritage Rangeland.
OHV travel is tightly limited: Alberta Parks says there is one designated OHV trail through Black Creek Heritage Rangeland, providing OHV access to Bob Creek Wildland Provincial Park, and no other motorized access is permitted except for management purposes.
Plan around backcountry hiking, equestrian travel, Whaleback landscape appreciation, access-condition checks, gate and livestock etiquette, map review, and confirming any hunting or lease restrictions.
The experience is shaped by conservation and working-land rules, not by campground or picnic-area amenities.
Confirm grazing lease access conditions, legal access routes, no-camping and no-campfire rules, OHV limits, hunting regulations, maps, advisories, weather, and Alberta Parks guidance.
