Working Together
Growing our destination is all about working together to craft outstanding experiences that connect with our visitors and to share our passion for the region.
Ice bubbles on Abraham Lake
The Nordegg & Abraham Lake region is a truly special place. It’s a different kind of Rockies experience, something that’s hard to explain until you’ve been there.
We believe that our region is a truly amazing place, with outstanding experiences to be shared with our guests. It’s still a little rough along the edges, making it hard sometimes for our visitors to see what we see.
That’s why we choose to work together to inspire people to visit the region and to help them plan their adventure so that they can discover the food, people and natural beauty of Nordegg & Abraham Lake. Along the way, we help each other so that our experiences continue to exceed our visitors’ expectations.
Ice bubble sunset on Abraham Lake
Sentinel Mountain and the David Thompson Highway
We do this by collaborating with like-minded partners who believe in building experiences with purpose. We all know the benefits of partnerships but we also know that they’re hard work. This is about making it easier to work together as a region.
This is not a directory of all there is to do in the region, rather it’s a carefully curated collection of outstanding adventures built around our ideal guest, the curious adventures who love the outdoors. It includes all kinds of adventures, from ice climbing to quiet moments on the frozen Abraham Lake and everything in between. As far as we’re concerned, adventure is about doing things that are new and different for each of us, doing things that can be a little scary but that also makes us curious to explore further.
Vendor Partners
Do you work directly with visitors to the region? Whether you’re a hotel, a retail store, an event planner or a business looking to share some of the amazing local experiences with your customers, Explore Nordegg & Abraham makes it easy for you to find the right adventure for your guests.
Some of the benefits of working together:
- Central Bookings: Find and book the right local experiences for your guests in one place.
- Simplified Administration: We take care of all the details, including tracking and paying commissions.
- Earn Commission: You get up to 15% on all bookings you generate.
- Product Knowledge Training: Free sessions to help your staff find the right experience for your guest.
- Industry Discounts: Let your staff gain first-hand experience of our adventures with savings, free admissions and industry tours.
Get Started
It’s easy to get started. Check out the program details and let us know a little about who you are.
Experience Providers
Are you passionate about creating outstanding Nordegg & Abraham Lake experiences? Let’s work together to share what makes our region so amazing. We’re looking for others who believe in collaboration and who share our passion for crafting adventures for cultural explorers who love the outdoors.
Hiking on the Kootenay Plains
Marshmallows by the fire at Crimson Lake Provincial Park
Frozen Crescent Falls
About This Project
How It Started
It started back in 2012 as the Explore Central Alberta blog on pursuitadventures.ca. We found it hard to find experiences that would appeal to our guests and most of what we could find was the usual listing of everything that exists in the area. We wanted something that went beyond the “there’s something for everybody” approach and started to build guides for activities that would appeal to our guests.
It started as a side project but as time went on it became clear that our guests were looking for this type of information. In the fall of 2018, we relaunched the site as a standalone website at explorecentralalberta.ca. This allowed us to update the guides to a new format that was more user-friendly, to expand the content and simplify the experience booking process for visitors.
In 2020, during the pandemic, we made the decision to relocate Pursuit Adventures to Nordegg and to focus our attention on the west end of David Thompson Country. We rebranded the site as Explore Nordegg & Abraham Lake and re-aligned the content to focus only on this region located between Central Alberta and the Mountain National Parks.
Moving Forward: The Explore Nordegg & Abraham Lake Brand
We haven’t found quite the right label for what we do (making it easier to see why our region is amazing) but what we do is definitely similar to what you would expect from a destination management company or a receptive tour operator, just more focused on experiences with a much more collaborative approach…
As we continue to grow this side of the business, the Explore Nordegg & Abraham LAke brand will start to take a life of its own, focused on the region and our partners while Pursuit Adventures stays focused on our owned-experiences. Both brands share a common purpose: to inspire you to play outside and help you experience your adventure so that you can discover the food, people and natural beauty of the region.
We’re focused on continuing to build on the partnerships we’ve built and on expanding our guides and itineraries for our guests. Everything we’re building is focused on our ideal guests: curious adventures interested in the outdoors.
Our goals are to:
- Inspire visitors to explore the region through great content.
- Make planning visits easier through guides, recommendations and itineraries.
- Simplify the booking process through a central booking for experiences and packages.
We’re working on:
- building a platform to improve collaboration amongst regional partners;
- growing the number of experiences available through Explore Nordegg & Abraham Lake;
- increasing our presence, as a region, through the travel trades, travel media and influencers and directly through engaging content;
- increasing the presence of Explore Nordegg & Abraham Lake as a brand separate from Pursuit Adventures.