Or you can drive northeast of town to Buffalo Pound Provincial Park for hiking, swimming, horseback riding, tennis and excellent bird watching. Moose Jaw is home to Canada s famous aerobatics team, the Snowbirds, who always put on a special show for the hometown crowd. In addition to the parks mentioned elsewhere in this profile, consider visiting some of the following in your travels across the province. If you re going into Saskatchewan from Montana, you might consider driving north on Highway 21 to Cypress Hills Interpretive Park . This large preserve has the highest elevation in the province , which is part of a forest of lodgepole pines.
Wildlife includes moose and the endangered trumpeter swan.
Adjacent to the western section of Cypress Hills is Fort Walsh National Historic Park , which contains a trading post from the 1870s and a North West Mounted Police post from the 1880s. Another interesting park in the southern region of the province is Grasslands National Park . Plains Indians hunted bison in the area, and there are thousands of archaeological sites throughout the park. Meadow Lake is one of the largest provincial parks in Saskatchewan. It runs along a chain of lakes near the province s northwest border with Alberta and has a lot of nature trails, hiking routes and good sandy beaches .