Welcome to Reel Adventures: Alberta Movie Maps, home to everything you ever wanted to know about movies filmed in Alberta before you hit the road.

We have put together a series of driving tours around Alberta for movie buffs and adventure seekers, families and friends who want to see where the scenes on the silver screen were filmed. Add to the mix a variety of local attractions along the way and you have the perfect recipe for a road trip (or two or three) in some of the most beautiful locations in the world.

A printed map with highlights of all three tours is available at Visitor Information Centres across the province.

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Take a Reel Adventures - Alberta Movie Maps tour and then tell us all about it on our survey. Your feedback makes you eligible to win prizes including a Made-In-Alberta Movie Package, featuring a selection of more than 20 movies filmed in Alberta, or adult movie passes for a whole year to any Cineplex theatre.

Contest closes September 30, 2009. Click here to take the survey and enter the contest.

One Week, starring Canadian actor Joshua Jackson, is the latest movie to showcase Alberta’s stunning and diverse scenery— from Medicine Hat to Drumheller and Dinosaur Provincial Park in the Canadian Badlands to Banff National Park. This movie takes you to and through some of the same locations you’ll find on the Alberta Movie Maps. Enjoy the movie then use the map to see the sights.

1. THE STUFF OF LEGENDS

CALGARY TO BANFF, KANANASKIS COUNTRY AND COWBOY COUNTRY

There’s just something about the Rocky Mountains that’s pure breath-snatching, awe-invoking majesty. Albertans would like to think Hollywood could shoot any movie against their treasured range of peaks, valleys and rolling foothills to produce an Oscar. Perhaps. But it's the Western genre that puts this landscape to its best use. Just ask the directors of  award winning films such as Brokeback Mountain, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Legends of the Fall, and Unforgiven. Click here for the ride of a lifetime.

2. SADDLES AND SIDE TRIPS

LETHBRIDGE TO FORT MACLEOD, COWLEY AND MILK RIVER

Southern Alberta's own style of frontier history, set amid unspoiled natural beauty, has made it a favourite backdrop, from exacting period pieces to sweeping "big country" dramas. From Lethbridge, let us take you on three cinematic tours and three side trips through the camera's lens to where scenery met celluloid in Brokeback Mountain, RV, and the soon-to-be-released, Passchendaele. Click here to be on your way.

3. BADLANDS AND BAD GUYS

CALGARY TO DRUMHELLER, BROOKS AND HANNA

There's an imposing size to the country east of Calgary, a broad swatch of plains under a big sky that needs only the silhouette of a horse and rider to conjure up images of bold cnematic westerns, old and new. So choose your hat, black or white, and let's ride the sage of the silver screen to a place where bullets, broncos and bravado hold sway  Click here to saddle up!

Thanks Pardner!

We'd like to thank the many organizations and folks who developed, produced and promoted Reel Adventures: Alberta Movie Maps. Hats off to all.

Partners

SouthGrow Regional Initiative
Alberta SouthWest Regional Alliance
Calgary Regional Partnership
Palliser Economic Partnership
Community Futures Chinook
Alberta Film Commission
Travel Alberta

Financial Supporters

Calgary and Southern Alberta Regional Economic Development Alliances
Western Economic Diversification – RCED program
Alberta South Tourism Destination Region

Sponsors

ACCESS Television
Movie Gallery and VHQ stores in Calgary and southern Alberta

We'd also like to thank the following for permission to use images from the movies you will find on the road trips.

"Passchendaele"
Photo by Chris Large
© Passchendaele Films Inc.

"Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
© Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc and Virtual Studios LLC
All Rights Reserved

"RV"
© 2006 IMF Internationale Medien und Film GmgH & CO.
3 Produktions KG.
All Rights Reserved.
Courtesy of Columbia Pictures

"Brokeback Mountain"
Photos appear courtesy of Focus Features
Photo by Kimberley French
All Rights Reserved

"Knockaround Guys"
Copyright MMII, New Line Productions, Inc.
All Rights Reserved
Photo by Michael Ginsberg
Photos appear courtesy of New Line Productions, Inc.

"Unforgiven"
© Warner Bros., a division of Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P.
All Rights Reserved.

"Heartland"
Photo Andrew Bako
© Seven 24 Films

Location shots courtesy of the Alberta Film Commission