The Sheep River is located in southwestern
Alberta
Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ...
,
Canada
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, and is part of the
Bow River
The headwaters of the Bow River in Alberta, Canada, start at the Bow Glacier and Bow Lake (Alberta), Bow Lake in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, Canadian Rocky Mountains. The glacial stream that feeds Bow Lake (Alberta), Bow Lake ...
watershed. The river begins in the mountain valleys of
Elbow-Sheep Wildland Provincial Park,
Elbow-Sheep Wildland Provincial Park
passes through Sheep River Provincial Park, and joins the Highwood River
The Highwood River is a tributary of the Bow River in southwestern Alberta, Canada.
Course
The Highwood originates in the Canadian Rockies in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park, in the Highwood Pass below Mount Arethusa. It flows south and is paral ...
about 8 km east of Okotoks
Okotoks ( , originally ) is a town in the Calgary Metropolitan Region, Calgary Region of Alberta, Canada. It is on the Sheep River, approximately south of Downtown Calgary. Okotoks has emerged as a bedroom community of Calgary. According to t ...
. The Sheep River provides drinking water for the towns of Diamond Valley, and Okotoks.
Tributaries
From origin to mouth, the Sheep River receives water from the following tributaries:
*Rae Creek (from Mount Rae)
*Burns Creek
*Cliff Creek
* Junction Creek
* Bluerock Creek
*Gorge Creek
*Dyson Creek
*March Creek
*Coal Creek
*Wolf Creek
*Long Prairie Creek
*Macabee Creek
*Waite Valley Creek
*Lineham Creek
*Turner Valley
*Threepoint Creek
*Spring Creek
*Wilson Coulee
See also
* List of rivers of Alberta
Alberta's rivers flow towards three different bodies of water, the Arctic Ocean, the Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Alberta is located immediately east of the continental divide, so no rivers from Alberta reach the Pacific Ocean.
List of riv ...
References
External links
Sheep River Wildlife Sanctuary
Rivers of Alberta
Okotoks
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