page_title: Whitewood, Saskatchewan
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Whitewood, Saskatchewan / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Three metre snow drifts lined the sidewalks in Whitewood, 1904.
context_page_description: Whitewood is a town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It is located approximately 175 kilometres east of Regina on the Trans-Canada Highway Sk Hwy 1. It is situated at the crossroads of two major highways systems – the Trans-Canada, which runs east and west, and Sk Hwy 9, which runs north and south from the US border to Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan. Located midway between Brandon, Manitoba and Regina, Whitewood was and continues to be an ideal place to stop and rest.
  It is administrative headquarters of the Chachacas and Ochapowace Cree First Nation band governments.
context_section_description: Whitewood is located in the north eastern section of the topographical area named Wood Hills to the north of Moose Mountain and south of the Qu'Appelle River. Whitewood is situated in the Melville Plain of the Aspen Parkland ecoregion.
  Burrows, Clayridge, Forest Farm, St. Luke, and St. Hubert Mission are small unincorporated areas near Whitewood.  The Ochapowace (Ochapowage) Indian Reserve is nearby.
caption: Three metre snow drifts lined the sidewalks in Whitewood, 1904
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