Willmore Wilderness Park is an Alberta Parks wilderness park in the Central region, southwest of Grande Cache in west-central Alberta. Alberta Parks lists one backcountry camping area and no developed day-use area count.
The park covers 4,597 square kilometres and borders British Columbia to the west and Jasper National Park to the south.
Willmore is one of Alberta's major wilderness backcountry landscapes, defined by ancient glaciers, high peaks, thick forests, raging rivers, and more than 750 kilometres of trails. Alberta Parks says visitors must be experienced and well equipped for backcountry adventure.
Wildlife is a central reason to visit. Alberta Parks notes that almost 20 percent of Alberta's mountain goats and bighorn sheep are found here, along with grizzly bears, mountain caribou, cougars, wolves, and critical ungulate winter range in the windswept eastern front ranges.
Activities include backcountry camping, fishing, backcountry hiking, equestrian use, hunting, wildlife viewing, snowshoeing, backcountry equestrian travel, and geocaching.
Main access points include Rock Lake Provincial Park, Sulphur Gates Provincial Recreation Area, and Big Berland Provincial Recreation Area. Random backcountry camping is permitted, but there are no campsites or facilities, and a Public Lands Camping Pass is required.
Plan around backpacking, horse-supported trips, random camping, fishing, hunting, snowshoeing, wildlife viewing, Rock Lake and Sulphur Gates staging, geocaching, and map research.
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