#Waterton lakes national park

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(by Ali Kazal)| Alberta, Canada

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Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada: Waterton Lakes National Park is in southern Alberta, Canada, bordering Montana’s Glacier National Park. It’s known for its chain of lakes, including the large Upper and Middle Waterton lakes, flanked by the Rocky Mountains. The Red Rock Parkway crosses the prairie to the small Red Rock Canyon. Bison graze near the Bison Paddock Loop Road. In Waterton village, a pathway offers close-up views of Cameron Falls.

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Waterton Lakes National Park🇨🇦

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Waterton Lakes National Park

📸 by @danschyk

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Good lord. I’ve done a whole longer hike before getting finished with the writing for this one. The goal for this week then is to finish writing about this trip and the next one before the big end-of-summer trip that this is all training for.

Hiking Journal: Waterton Lakes NP,

Bauerman/Blakiston Valleys Loop Part IV, July 25

The start of the last day was amazing. It was mostly downhill but first we had to climb a couple hundred metres over the Bauerman Divide. Riding above Twin Lakes while the sun was still low on this morning when (finally!) snatches of cloud were drifting in, I mean, just look at it.

And appreciate the silhouette of this larch. I love a good larch.

Descending into Blackiston Valley, though, we re-entered the Kenow Burn looking worse than I’d yet seen it. Maybe it’d burned again more recently. Nothing grew here, nothing lived here, and everything blackened fingers to the touch. No leaves rustled or needles swished; the only sound was the whistle of wind through stark black spars.

It was hard not to sink into climatic despair and unhelpful anger hiking through this section. A descent into Mordor, as the downhill seemed, called to mind the immutable power of latter-day Saurons.

But the lower valley proved the wisdom of hope by showing the power of succession. I think it was indeed a less recent burn down there, because here the reseeded chest-high lodgepole pines grew thick as grass.

Lower Blackiston Creek flows over very pretty steps of red argillite.

Lower still, it was a bit of culture shock coming from the backcountry into the busy tourist trail to the steel balconies, moulded all over into the beaver crest of Parks Canada, of the very developed Blackiston Falls overlook. People are walking in crocs? Where are their 30-pound packs? Is this allowed?

We got out before lunch somehow and went to get hot dogs in Waterton town. Finally, though I don’t have a very good photo of it, on the way out of the park we came across an example of succession and reclamation I never expected to see. In the prairie portion of the Park, they maintain a wide enclosed paddock of natural grassland, and within that area, a small herd of bison roam in if not the number then seemingly much the way that they would have two hundred years ago, before genocide-driving colonial hunting ended their reign as makers and kings of the continental interior. This is a bit of what Niitsitapi must have looked like for untold ages long before my time.

In sum total, four days, three nights camping, ~50 km, and almost 1900 m climbed vertically. Lessons from the trail: nature renews. We can help.

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Sunset over St. Mary: Glacier National Park (pictured above at Saint Mary Lake, Montana) was the world’s first International Peace Park, extending from the U.S. into Canada where it becomes Waterton Lakes National Park. With more than a million acres in northern Montana, the park is nicknamed the “Crown of the Continent.”

PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL MELFORD, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION

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the last of us bts set photos feb. 2022

so like literally a year ago I was at this cool place called waterton (fav place ever!!) for a weekend trip and we saw all of these old worn down vehicles and google told us that they had just finished filming this show called “the last of us.” it’s was like -40 c that week and it was such a cool experience to walk through the town with the set there (even if I hadn’t heard of the game) and now I’m throughly obsessed with the show and kicking myself for not taking more than two photos of the set🥲 anyways, enjoy this little collage of waterton and tlou bts!!

two cool vehicles and some jazzy scenery photos 🫶

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Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta 5, Waterton Park, Alberta, Canada

Ali Kazal

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Waterton Lakes National Park  // Alberta, Canada, 24.09.2022

I really enjoyed visiting Waterton Lakes National Park. The drive to the park was already breathtaking. We drove from Calgary and followed the Cowboy Trail south to Pincher Creek. From Pincher Creek to Waterton Lakes NP, it was another 40 km south but the scenery was so nice. I loved driving through the yellow prairie grasses while seeing the Rocky Mountains and some of its dramatic peaks appearing on our right hand side. We even spotted a coyote. It was only in a blink but I saw how he had a prey in his mouth and wandered off. It is an image I will never forget. Eventually we reached Waterton Lakes NP, where the prairie meets the Rockies.

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Prince of Wales Hotel, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada

📸 by @danschyk

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The mighty adventurers of the Crypt Lake Trail in Waterton National Park (25 June, 2024)

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Driftwood Beach and Mount Crandell (Waterton Lakes National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the west while taking in views along the shores of Middle Waterton Lake with a backdrop of Mount Crandell. This is in Waterton Lakes National Park.