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Wood Mountain Regional Park

regional park in Saskatchewan, Canada

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ8032242 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wood Mountain Regional Park is a conservation and recreation area in its natural state set aside as a regional park in the south-western region of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The park is set in the semi-arid Palliser's Triangle in an upland area called Wood Mountain Hills. It is in the Rural Municipality of Old Post No. 43, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south of the village of Wood Mountain along Highway 18.

Adjacent to the southern boundary of Wood Mountain Regional Park is Wood Mountain Creek and Wood Mountain Post Provincial Park. Immediately to the west is Wood Mountain Indian reserve and to the east is the Wood Mountain Game Preserve (49.3001°N 106.2839°W / 49.3001; -106.2839).

Amenities and attractions within the park include the Rodeo Ranch Museum, Wood Mountain Stampede, Sitting Bull Monument, ball diamonds, campsites, concessions, swimming pool, and hiking and bicycling trails. This is a local park administered by local funding.

History

In 1874, the Boundary Commission, which was charged with surveying the Canada–United States border, set up a depot on Wood Mountain Creek at the current location of Wood Mountain Regional Park. Later that year, the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) on their March West to deal with the Cypress Hills Massacre, bought the depot and used it to establish relations with local First Nations, patrol the border with the United States, and to police whisky traders, horse thieves, and cattle rustlers.

Editorial summary

“Wood Mountain Regional Park” enters the record as regional park in Saskatchewan, Canada. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wood, Mountain and Regional can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1874—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wood, Mountain and Regional.
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Why this record matters

“Wood Mountain Regional Park” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wood, Mountain and Regional provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8032242. Authority coordinates are 49.321, -106.379. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1874.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wood Mountain Regional Park” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.