Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Provincial Recreation Area

• A firearms discharge permits is required to hunt in Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Provincial Recreation Area.
• Hunters are required to attend an orientation session in order to obtain a firearms discharge permit.
• To obtain a discharge permit, a hunter must go in person, with photo id. 
• Please note these sessions are held at Miquelon Lake Provincial Park near New Sarepta, not at Cooking Lake-Blackfoot.

Note: Discharging firearms is not permitted within 400 metres of the staging areas (boundaries are identified by bright orange-yellow signs) or within 200 metres of backcountry shelters. 

Check the Alberta parks hunting section for detailed information.

• A firearms discharge permits is required to hunt in Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Provincial Recreation Area.
• Hunters are required to attend an orientation session in order to obtain a firearms discharge permit.
• To obtain a discharge permit, a hunter must go in person, with photo id. 
• Please note these sessions are held at Miquelon Lake Provincial Park near New Sarepta, not at Cooking Lake-Blackfoot.

Note: Discharging firearms is not permitted within 400 metres of the staging areas (boundaries are identified by bright orange-yellow signs) or within 200 metres of backcountry shelters.  

Check the Alberta parks hunting section for detailed information.

• A firearms discharge permits is required to hunt in Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Provincial Recreation Area.
• Hunters are required to attend an orientation session in order to obtain a firearms discharge permit.
• To obtain a discharge permit, a hunter must go in person, with photo id. 
• Please note these sessions are held at Miquelon Lake Provincial Park near New Sarepta, not at Cooking Lake-Blackfoot.

Note: Discharging firearms is not permitted within 400 metres of the staging areas (boundaries are identified by bright orange-yellow signs) or within 200 metres of backcountry shelters. 

Check the Alberta parks hunting section for detailed information.

Check the Canadian Birkebeiner website  to register and for information on other Birkie festival events like the Vikings Feast and Nordic Fair.

Registration opens October 10!