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Willmore Wilderness Horseback Adventures
Where We Ride
Willmore Wilderness Park is Alberta's largest
area of pristine mountain wilderness - 4597 square kilometres.
Scenes of meadows overflowing with wildflowers, bubbling
creeks, stunning mountain peaks and never ending forests
will hold you in awe. Our pack trips will take you along
the same trails frequented by early Canadian explorers.
During the 1800's, traders with pack horses brimming with
furs followed these same river valleys enroute from the
Willmore area to trading posts at Jasper House. Grande
Cache was the site of a large fur cache (storage area)
for an Iroquois fur trapper, who worked for the Hudson
Bay Company. His "grande cache" was left at this site
sometime between 1818 and 1821. For the ensuing years
the area natives continued their traditional living in
the surrounding mountains and river valleys. It was not
until 1966 that the Town of Grande Cache was created.
You will see historic sites and cabins along these trails
that remain relatively unchanged.
This wilderness area is vast, and relatively unknown.
You will spend hours, even days in the park, without encountering
other parties of people. They too, will be either on horse-back,
foot or mountain bikes as Willmore has restricted access
to motorized vehicles.
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