Hi I wondered if any of you guys could recommend a secluded cabin around the Jasper/Wilmore wilderness area for a family holiday in April. Hoping for snow to be still around!
Thanks
Matt

Here is where I would start...

[url=https://www.canadastays.com/willmore-wilderness-cabin-rentals/]

[url=https://www.canadastays.com/jaspernationalpark-cabin-rentals/[/



If you prefer less wild but still very beautiful, try the same address but after the / substitute jaspernationalpark. In Jasper, a couple of places you might want to check directly, using your search engine, are

Sunwapta Falls

and

Pocahontas Cabins.

I don't think you will find any truly bad places to stay in that area of Alberta.

As to snow, I hardly think you'll have any trouble finding that in April in that part of the province. When I used to live there, there was still snow on the ground in
April even at Edmonton, 150+ miles east and many hundreds of feet lower elevation than where you are looking at going, (and about the same distance from any part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Range).

Edited to add

Oddly enough the link I posted doesn't work for me now. So I would jut Google "Where Canada Stays" and get a link that way.

Think snow will be pretty hard to avoid. Should be feet of the stuff on the Banff Jasper highway. If you wanna get close to the Willmore Wilderness, your best bet is Grande Cache, but it's not really a tourist destination unless you're into heavy duty hiking and camping. It's huge and absolutely nothing for services.

Grizz

Grizz - Does it amaze you as much as it does me, that folks expect to be able to drive anywhere in Alberta or Saskatchewan (or most of British Columbia), and find tourist facilities and all kinds of urban and/or emergency services? Kind of like they subconsciously think it's a big picture book that they only have to open in front of the fire to enjoy...

It is beautiful and has great hunting and fishing because development-wise almost none of that stuff is there. Most small towns I've seen in western Canada don't even have a gasoline station, let alone high quality dining, grocery stores,or paved roads between them (or even in town). There are, of course, some of those in tourism destinations like Jasper, Banff and a few others like Whitecourt and Grand Prairie, but in the Peace River country, the Lake Athabasca area, almost all of true Northern Alberta, and the little towns over in the border area where Alberta meets Saskatchewan, many of those things are almost always made of pure, precious, unobtainium.

That's the great thing about rural western Canada...one can have (in fact is forced to have) inner peace because there isn't much in the way of development or other people to see there. Most of it is about as "developed" as the state of Colorado was 100 or more years ago.

To live in rural western Canada, you need to be competent, cautious, a bit brave or at least sure of yourself, able to delay or do entirely without normal daily gratifications of the U.S. and all of Europe.

In exchange, one gets to be among marvelous works of God in the terra firma and skies, and can celebrate/exercise independent personal freedom and not ever have to even look at or own a watch or clock.

AC You haven't been in Alberta in a while I'm guessing. The devlopment that has gone one due to oil and gas is opening up the areas you describe to a state that I am sure you would not recognize. But there are still a few (Very few) untouched areas as you describe

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Originally posted by Canuck32:
AC You haven't been in Alberta in a while I'm guessing. The devlopment that has gone one due to oil and gas is opening up the areas you describe to a state that I am sure you would not recognize. But there are still a few (Very few) untouched areas as you describe

I suspected as much...thanks for confirming it.

I had heard from close relatives there that the oil & gas price boom had turned Alberta into a haven for many, many thousands of folks from the provinces which have chronic high unemployment rates. Another double-edged sword, I guess.

I also heard the hunting has gotten much poorer as a result of all the cut-lines and population increases increasing the pressure on the game.

I haven't been back in years because I don't fly commercially anymore. Have had two of those suckers (one Air Canada DC9 and one United Airlines DC6) burn out from under me and a window pop out of a DC8. Third time of the plane burning up (both time the fires started while in flight) would probably be be "the charm". I've been blessed with no injuries either time, but won't tempt fate again. I may be a slow learner, but I think there is a message in there somewhere. So as I don't think I would enjoy burns over 100% of my body, and as I no longer qualify medically for a private aviator's ticket, if it isn't a convenient drive, I don't go.

[We're speaking only of Alberta, I presume. Although friends in Saskatchewan tell me that oil & gas have improved that province's economy and attractiveness to outsiders, certainly not to anything like the degree it has "boomed" Alberta.I feel pretty certain much of what I described still applies in Saskatchewan. It was always colder, windier, and more agriculturally oriented than Alberta...and much more of the province was (is) devoted to miles & miles & miles of grain farms and tiny, dying rural towns.]