James-Wilson Provincial Recreation Area is an Alberta Parks site in the Central region, 40 kilometres west of Sundre on Forestry Trunk Road, Highway 734.
Alberta Parks lists one day-use area, one campground, and one group-use area. Friends of the Eastern Slopes Association is shown as partner.
James-Wilson is a Forestry Trunk Road campground and day-use base for fishing, hiking, geocaching, and nearby motorized trails. Activities include camping, fishing, front-country hiking, off-site OHV riding, off-site snowmobiling, and geocaching.
The OHV rules are precise. Alberta Parks says OHV off-loading within the campground and travel on established roadways during daylight hours are permitted within the recreation area. Off-road travel is not permitted within the park, and the maximum OHV speed in the recreation area is 15 kilometres per hour. The official page points riders toward the Forestry Trunk Road OHV corridor and informal trails in the vicinity.
That means James-Wilson can support a motorized-trail trip, but only if riders separate on-site campground roadway travel from off-site trail riding. Campers should also confirm group-use availability, campground status, and current road or fire conditions before travel.
The partner listing and campground map are useful planning resources for site choice and current operations.
Plan around camping, group use, day use, fishing, hiking, geocaching, established-roadway OHV access, nearby OHV trails, snowmobile research, and campground map review.
Confirm campground and group-use status, OHV speed and roadway rules, fishing regulations, maps, advisories, road conditions, weather, and Alberta Parks updates.
