Within Canada, Alberta is one of provinces located on the western side of the country. Alberta has approximately 4 million inhabitants, and is the fourth most densely populated province.
Alberta is bounded by the Northwest Territories to the north of the province, Saskatchewan on the eastern side, British Columbia to the west, and the United States state of Montana to the south. Alberta is nicknamed a landlocked province, as it is completely surrounded by other provinces or states.
Albertas capital city is the beautiful Edmonton, which is located almost dead in the centre of Alberta. To the south of Edmonton is the home of the 1988 Winter Olympics, Calgary. Both Edmonton and Calgary have a population of over 1 million people. Some of the other major cities of mention in Alberta are Red Deer, Lethbridge, St. Albert Medicine Hat and Grand Prairie.
If you decide to hire a motorhome here & are looking for some of the best snow skiing in the world, Alberta will definitely deliver. With Marmot Basin, Nakiska, Lake Louise, Sunridge, Banff, Snow Valley, Rabbit Hill and Misery Mountain being some of the most visited ski fields.
But Alberta isnt just all snow skiing and snowboarding. Some of the other tourist attractions include Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump, Drumheller, Writing on Stone National Park, Jasper Provincial Park, the Japanese Gardens in Lethbridge, and the Dinosaur Provincial Park.