page_title: Waskahegan Trail
section_title: Route
hierarchical_section_title: Waskahegan Trail / Route
caption_attribution_description: English: Waskahegan Trail, Saunders Lake Section, Alberta, Canada
context_page_description: The Waskahegan Trail is a walking/hiking trail that runs through and around Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is 309 km and runs through a mix of public and private land. Landowners are paid nothing. Their permission is given on the understanding that it can be withdrawn at any time for any reason. The trail is managed by a volunteer board, the Waskahegan Trail Association.
context_section_description: The trail is more or less circular in shape.
  Within the city of Edmonton, the trail takes advantage of the extensive set of trails and walkways within the North Saskatchewan River valley parks system.  Taking this as an arbitrary starting point (for this article), the Waskahegan Trail starts in northeast Edmonton's Bannerman neighbourhood, where the city's North Hermitage Park trail starts near the intersection of the North Saskatchewan River and 144 Avenue. From this point it runs southwest through the North Saskatchewan River valley parks system, diverting from this system at the Whitemud Creek, progressing in a more southerly direction along the Whitemud until it intersects Blackmud Creek, continuing south until exiting to street level at Ellerslie Road, the first gap in the trail.
  The trail picks up at Saunders Lake, directly east of Edmonton International Airport. From there, it continues south to Coal Lake, which feeds into the Battle River in the Wetaskiwin area.  From here, the trail turns east along the Battle River from Gwynne towards Driedmeat Lake, but before reaching the lake, it turns north to Camrose.  North of Camrose is the second gap, with the trail picking up again at Miquelon Lake Provincial Park, continuing north through the Ministik Lake Bird Sanctuary, the Hastings Lake area, and the Cooking Lake–Blackfoot Recreation Area to Elk Island National Park. From Elk Island, the trail turns west along Ross Creek to Fort Saskatchewan. The third and final gap is between Fort Saskatchewan and the starting point in Edmonton.
caption: The Ducks Unlimited Monument as seen from the Saunders Lake section of the trail
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