Police Outpost Provincial Park

The most southerly of Alberta’s Provincial Parks, Police Outpost is located on a small lake on the United States border. A North-West Mounted Police post was established here in 1891 to control whiskey smuggling and to protect the 48 residents of the area known as Boundary Creek. This post was closed a few years later, as it seemed there was little smuggling (or much else) to threaten the locals.

Known best by trout fishermen as the place to hook the big ones, and by birdwatchers who frequent the wetlands to view the migratory waterfowl, this park is a place where visitors have nature, not history,
on their minds.

This is a small park, just 223 hectares (551 acres), where fishing and boating are popular pastimes. A patchwork of grassland, shrubs, aspen forest, and marsh provides habitat for birds and other wildlife. If you hike along one of the well-marked trails, you may meet some of the many resident small mammals or deer, elk and moose.

Open year round. Office hours: Mon-Fri 8:15-4:30. Park staff are also available evenings and weekends, especially during the summer. 33 km (21 miles) southwest of Cardston on Highway 2; 242 km (150 miles) south of Calgary. .

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