Buffalo Lake Moraine Conservation Area (97.5 km)
Located about 29 km southeast of Bashaw, this 1,120-acre site in the Parkland Buffalo Lake Moraine offers a mix of grasslands, aspen forests, and wetlands. Access is from a parking lot off Highway 56, with an interpretive trail leading to Potter's Seep, where you’ll find a spring surrounded by balsam poplars over 100 years old, recognized by the Heritage Tree Foundation of Canada. The area supports wildlife such as moose, white-tailed and mule deer, black bear, cougar, red fox, and various bird species like the American wigeon, mallard, blue-winged teal, horned grebe, American coot, American white pelican, downy woodpecker, northern flicker, American goldfinch, least flycatcher, tree swallow, yellow warbler, and northern goshawk. Common plant species within this conservation area include wild strawberry, snowberry, silverberry, Canadian buffaloberry, beaked hazelnut, Saskatoon, wild raspberry, chokecherry, hookspur violet, mouse-eared chickweed, sage, purple vetch, and Canada anemone, among others.
Access: Head north on Highway 56 from Settler. After 18 km, the site entrance will be on your left.
Partners: ACA, AFGA, DUC, NCC, & TD Friends of the Environment Foundation
Alberta Discover Guide: E3-110
Located about 29 km southeast of Bashaw, this 1,120-acre site in the Parkland Buffalo Lake Moraine offers a mix of grasslands, aspen forests, and wetlands. Access is from a parking lot off Highway 56, with an interpretive trail leading to Potter's Seep, where you’ll find a spring surrounded by balsam poplars over 100 years old, recognized by the Heritage Tree Foundation of Canada. The area supports wildlife such as moose, white-tailed and mule deer, black bear, cougar, red fox, and various bird species like the American wigeon, mallard, blue-winged teal, horned grebe, American coot, American white pelican, downy woodpecker, northern flicker, American goldfinch, least flycatcher, tree swallow, yellow warbler, and northern goshawk. Common plant species within this conservation area include wild strawberry, snowberry, silverberry, Canadian buffaloberry, beaked hazelnut, Saskatoon, wild raspberry, chokecherry, hookspur violet, mouse-eared chickweed, sage, purple vetch, and Canada anemone, among others.
Access: Head north on Highway 56 from Settler. After 18 km, the site entrance will be on your left.
Partners: ACA, AFGA, DUC, NCC, & TD Friends of the Environment Foundation
Alberta Discover Guide: E3-110
