Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park
A UNESCO World Heritage Site
Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park has been a place of incredible spiritual and cultural significance to the Indigenous Peoples of Canada since time immemorial.
Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park is one of the oldest standing cultural sites of the Indigenous Peoples in all of Canada. Walk among towering hoodoos and discover beautiful rock drawings to get a glimpse into the past of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada.
Visitor Centre
The Writing-on-Stone Visitor Centre features informational resources with descriptions of the hoodoos and the ecology. Guests can visit the Centre to learn more about the site and ask the staff questions. The Centre also offers public bathrooms, Wi-Fi, and a gift shop. Publications featuring maps of the site are available in the Centre.
Hiking and Hoodoos
The area surrounding the site has just under 5 K.M. of hiking trails as well as backcountry trails.
The landscape of backcountry hiking features rolling grasslands, Hoodoo fields and narrow sandstone canyons over a 930-hectare backcountry hiking zone.
Archeological Preserve Guided Tour
Join park interpreters on tours through the Archaeological Preserve at Writing-on-Stone/ Áísínai’pi Provincial Park.
The cultural landscape of Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park integrates the natural environment, cultural features, human experiences, and spiritual perceptions into one.
Programs
Evening Programs
The evening brings programming delivered by park interpreters; expect storytelling, games, theatrical reenactments, and informative wildlife and cultural presentations.
Naató’si’s Path
Naató'si (the sun) gives light and life to Na'a (Mother Earth) and her inhabitants. Explore the sun theme in the rock art with a park interpreter during a guided tour that looks at Blackfoot ways of life at Áísínai'pi/Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park and the importance of Naató'si in Blackfoot storytelling.
Rock Art of Áísínai’pi
Join a park interpreter for a guided walking tour in the Archaeological Preserve where the history, stories, and the language of the Niitisippi (Blackfoot) people are woven together to provide insight into the meaning of the carvings (petroglyphs) and paintings (pictographs).