Wood Bison Gateway & The Matcheetawin Trails

Approximately 27 km north of Fort McMurray, visitors are greeted by a massive stone sculpture of a Wood Bison herd. The Wood Bison Gateway marks the beginning of the Matcheetawin Discovery Trails (a Cree word meaning “beginning place”) and the Sagow Pematosowin Trail (Cree for “living in peaceful co-existence with the land”). The four-kilometre interpretive trail system on 50 hectares of land offers visitors the opportunity to see various types of reclaimed land ranging from forests to grasslands and wetlands.