Alberta big-game hunting
Alberta is famous for trophy whitetail and mule deer, moose, elk, and black bear.
Independent Alberta adventure guides
Plan your Alberta adventure, from the Rockies to the boreal north.
Independent guides to outdoor adventure travel in Alberta, Canada. Hunting, fishing, riding, paddling, and camping, with the planning advice and the licence and guide rules sorted before you book.
What this is
Access Adventures is an independent guide to outdoor adventure travel in Alberta, Canada, with plain-spoken advice on planning a big-game hunt or fishing trip, booking a guide or outfitter, riding the foothills, paddling the rivers, and finding camping and backcountry lodging across the province.
What is Access Adventures?
Access Adventures is an independent guide and directory to outdoor adventure travel in Alberta, Canada. It organizes trips by activity, hunting, fishing, horseback riding, paddling, camping, and wildlife viewing, and leads with how to plan each one, including the licence, guide, and season rules, before pointing you to vetted operators.
Browse by activity
Guides for every Alberta adventure
Independent planning advice from people who hunt, fish, ride, and paddle this province. Pick an activity to start.
Fishing in Alberta
Alberta offers cold mountain streams full of trout, big prairie and boreal lakes holding walleye, pike, and lake trout, and remote fly-in waters for anglers who want solitude.
Trail rides
Alberta's foothills and Rocky Mountain country are classic riding country, with operators offering everything from hour-long trail rides to multi-day backcountry pack trips and full guest-ranch stays.
Whitewater rafting and canoeing on Alberta's mountain rivers
Alberta's mountain and foothills rivers offer guided whitewater rafting from family-friendly floats to genuine big-water runs, plus flatwater and moving-water canoeing for paddlers who want a quieter trip.
Camping and RV travel across Alberta's parks and backcountry
Alberta has front-country campgrounds you can drive to, backcountry sites you hike or ride into, and RV parks with full hookups, spread across the mountain parks, foothills, and provincial parks.
Lodges
For an Alberta adventure, your lodging choice usually follows the activity: a bed and breakfast or cabin near the mountains and foothills for riding, paddling, and touring, or a fishing or hunting lodge that puts you on the water or the hunting ground.
Wildlife viewing and scenic touring across Alberta
Alberta is one of the best places in North America to see large wildlife, including elk, deer, moose, bighorn sheep, bears, and abundant birds, especially in and around the mountain parks and foothills.
Why Access Adventures
Planning first, booking second
Most outdoor-travel sites drop you into a list of operators and hope you click one. We do the opposite. Every guide here starts with how to actually plan the trip: which region and season fit the activity, what licence and guide rules apply, and how to tell a great outfitter from a risky one. The operator listings come after the advice, clearly marked, so you always know why something belongs on the page.
We cover the whole province and the whole trip: big-game hunting, fishing, trail rides and guest ranches, whitewater and canoeing, camping and RV, lodges and bed and breakfasts, and wildlife viewing, all tied together by the Alberta adventure overview.