Kakwa Wildland Provincial Park is an Alberta Parks wildland park in the North region. The official page describes a remote, rugged park with more than 650 square kilometres of forested valleys, creeks, lakes, and mountains.
Alberta Parks places access from Grande Prairie by Highway 40, Highway 666, and a long truck trail. The park is part of Kakwa-Willmore Interprovincial Park with Willmore Wilderness and British Columbia's Kakwa Provincial Park.
Kakwa is a serious backcountry destination in the Alpine and Sub-alpine sub-regions of the Rocky Mountain Natural Region. Alberta Parks says the park contains mountains, foothills, meadows, streams, and rivers, with plants, birds, and mammals that include grizzly bears, lynx, and woodland caribou.
Kakwa Falls, Alberta's tallest waterfall at 30 metres, is one of three waterfalls listed with Lower Kakwa Falls and Francis Peak Creek Falls. Activities include backcountry hiking, equestrian use, hunting, on-site OHV riding, on-site snowmobiling, wildlife viewing, and geocaching.
Random backcountry camping is permitted, but Alberta Parks notes there are no campsites or facilities and no permit or fee is required. Roughly 100 kilometres of trails have been mapped, but they are not well marked or maintained, and there is no cell phone reception.
OHV use is restricted to designated trails, with specific notes for Kakwa Falls and Two Lakes-Lick Creek routes.
Plan around remote backcountry hiking, horseback riding, Kakwa Falls, random camping, hunting, designated-trail OHV use, snowmobiling, wildlife viewing, and trail-map research.
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