Matthews Crossing Natural Area is an Alberta Parks natural area in the Central region. The official page places it five kilometres northeast of Entwistle and lists no developed day-use area count.
Alberta Parks classifies the site under the Wilderness Areas, Ecological Reserves, Natural Areas and Heritage Rangelands Act. The listed size is 767.67 acres, or 310.677 hectares.
Matthews Crossing is a low-service natural area for visitors researching Pembina River landscape, dry mixedwood forest, hiking, and hunting access near Entwistle. Activities include front-country hiking and hunting.
The management description gives the primary natural context. Alberta Parks places the site in the Boreal Forest - Dry Mixedwood Natural Region and says it contains rolling terrain and the steep banks of the Pembina River. It also includes wetlands in depressions, mainly aspen forest on uplands, and mixed aspen-balsam poplar on the river bank and near wetlands.
The official page does not list a campground, day-use facilities, marked trail system, boat launch, or visitor centre. Visitors should plan with current access information, maps, boundary awareness, and weather rather than assuming developed recreation services.
Special permit categories include agricultural grazing or haying, commercial filming and photography, fishing, guiding or outfitting, hunting, industrial activity, scientific research and collection, special events, and trapping.
Plan around front-country hiking, hunting where permitted, Pembina River bank observation, wetland awareness, dry mixedwood forest context, map review, and special-permit checks.
Confirm access, boundaries, hiking conditions, hunting seasons, licences, special permits, maps, advisories, weather, and current Alberta Parks guidance before travelling.
