Discover High Prairie

High Prairie offers a variety of ways to spend your vacation: At the High Prairie and District Museum, exhibits range from prehistoric stone tools and fossils to current community topics. The High Prairie Regional Aquatic Centre combines swimming and leisure pools with other water activities. And High Prairie is a starting point for parks and protected natural areas with a wide range of outdoor activities. This lets you choose different focuses for your trip without limiting yourself to just one way of exploring.

Town History and Getting Your Bearings at the Museum

The exhibits at the High Prairie and District Museum tell the story of the town of High Prairie and Big Lakes County. Ranging from prehistoric stone tools and fossils to current community topics, they bring together worlds separated by long stretches of time and different ways of life. Visitors interested in the town’s development and community can find a cultural introduction to High Prairie and Big Lakes County here.

The museum is located in High Prairie and also serves as a gateway to the Peace Region. As an information centre, it offers travel guides and regional tourism information, as well as tips for exploring nearby museums, lakes, cultural attractions and outdoor activities in the Big Lakes region and Peace Country. A visit to the museum can therefore also help you find your bearings and plan around other regional interests. For families who enjoy exploring different topics, history sits alongside information about nature and cultural activities here.

Water Activities for Different Vacation Days

The High Prairie Regional Aquatic Centre offers a variety of ongoing activities and registered programs year-round. The centre includes a main or swimming pool with lanes, a leisure pool, a hot tub and a waterslide. The Leisure Pool adds a lazy river and various spray features. Each area offers something different: swimming laps, getting active in the leisure pool or relaxing in the hot tub.

For a group trip, you can consider whether water activities should play an important role in your vacation plans. If you choose a vacation rental mainly with your fellow travelers’ interests in mind, you can consider these recreational options as a distinct focus alongside culture and nature.

Sports, Performing Arts and Nature

The Sports Palace/Gordon Buchanan Centre has two indoor arenas, a curling rink and a state-of-the-art performing arts auditorium. High Prairie thus offers both spaces for sports and an auditorium for the performing arts. If you’d like to combine cultural experiences with an interest in sports, these venues are among the different sides of the town to consider when planning your vacation.

High Prairie is also a starting point for exploring the landscape and outdoor activities: The town provides access to 26,957 hectares of parks and protected natural areas that offer locals and visitors a wide range of outdoor activities. This focus on nature is quite different from a day spent at the museum or Aquatic Centre. You can therefore consider whether you’d like your trip to focus more on indoor activities, culture or outdoor pursuits.

Cultural Events in May

The High Prairie Traditional Pow Wow is one of the cultural events held in May. It adds another cultural dimension to the exhibits about history and current community topics. If traditions and community culture are part of what you look for in a trip, you can keep this event in mind as you explore High Prairie. You can consider these different cultural topics alongside water activities and outdoor pursuits when deciding what you’re interested in for your vacation.

Explore More Places

More destinations to explore: High Level, Slave Lake, Wabasca-Desmarais, Faust, Swan Hills and Manning.

For the broader travel overview: Division No. 17.