From rails to trails...
Experience walking, wagon and cycling adventures as well as snowmobile, ATV and horseback riding on the Iron Horse Trail!

The Iron Horse Trail is a most remarkable multi-use recreational corridor, taking its name from its former use as a railroad. Because this corridor has been in existence since the beginning of the twentieth century, the ecology of the Trail is relatively untouched.

The Trail runs through mixed wood forest, farmland, crosses streams and rivers, and skirts lakes. The user of the Trail will find a total of eighteen railroad trestles, those marvels of engineering that have stood the test of time.

The Iron Horse Trail is 278 km long, and runs from Heinsburg in the east to Waskatenau in the west to Cold Lake in the northeast. The trail passes through several rural communities which provide complete services for the traveler. It can be accessed from any town along the route.

The Trail consists of two routes, one starting in Waskatenau and running through Smoky Lake, Vilna, Spedden, Ashmont, St. Paul, Elk Point, Lindbergh, and ending in Heinsburg. The other route starts in a place called Abilene Junction, just east of Ashmont, and runs through Mallaig, Therien, Glendon, Franchere, Bonnyville, Fort Kent, Ardmore, and ends in Cold Lake.

The Riverland area has over 500 km of snowmobile trails (winter use only) and is growing every year. The Iron Horse Trail connects many of these trails together and provides good access to services for snowmobile users.