Wood Bison Gateway & the Matcheetawin Discovery Trails

Approximately 27 kilometres north of Fort McMurray visitors are greeted by a massive stone sculpture of a Wood Bison herd. The Wood Bison Gateway also 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 spruce/aspen forests and jack pine forests to grasslands and wetlands.