Accommodations
Trophy Hunting Alberta’s accommodations range from the tent camp ‘rough it’ style through the full-comfort motor-home/travel trailer variety to working Alberta ranches. In some areas, cottages or rustic cabins are used or perhaps local Bed & Breakfasts. Select local hotel/motel accommodations are also used during certain hunts, depending upon availability and suitability. Although it would be more profitable for THA to have a fixed facility, such as a lodge, we believe that it is better to establish camps closer to the current location of active game, not in an area dictated by the location of a lodge.
Most of our remote tent camps are equipped with all facilities including dedicated tent for hunters and dedicated cook tent. The camps are located with access to the hunting trails. Cooking and cleaning water will be brought in from town. In a typical elk or moose tent camp, we utilize several 12’x14′ Outfitter tents with 5′ walls, with the guides and cook in one area and the hunters in another area. A central area is for cooking and eating. Each tent has its own wood stove and/or propane heaters based on the hunters preference. We limit these camps to only 4 hunters and provide a minimum of at least 1 guide per 2 hunters and a camp cook, who is usually also a licensed guide. To see some typical remote tent camps, view our remote camps.
Our motor-home/travel trailer camps utilize quality hard shell facilities complete with forced air heat, showers and individual beds. These camps are very portable and offer a good night’s sleep and warm, dry clothes for the next morning’s hunt. The flexibility of location for these portable camps allows us to locate the camps closer to where the game is, not where it is simply easier to set up the camp. In these camps, the hunters have privacy from the guides and cook. We limit these camps to a maximum of 2 hunters. To see some typical motor-home/trailer camps, view our remote camps.
On many of our hunts, we utilize working Alberta ranches. These are excellent facilities with all the comforts of home. A typical ranch is from 4,000 to 6,000 acres in size, however, our hunting is not limited to the home camp ranch. In Alberta, it is illegal for an Outfitter to pay for land access, and it is illegal for a rancher to charge for access. As a result, access can generally only be obtained by developing and maintaining good landowner relations. By utilizing local ranches and paying the rancher for accommodation, his wife for cooking and hiring the farm family or local neighbors to guide, we obtain excellent access to large parcels of hunting territory in the local communities. To see some typical ranch accommodations, view our ranches.
If we utilize a hotel or motel during a particular hunt, we predetermine suitable local restaurants that meet the needs of our hunters.
Our meals are typically home cooked, all you can eat. Our basics always include fresh fruit, vegetables and spices, pure Canadian maple syrup, Canadian bacon, wild game (where practical) and a wide selection of wholesome, high energy snacks. All food is usually prepared at base camp by a camp chef, the rancher’s wife or by the guide(s) at a spike, or small, camp. In all camps, there is an ample supply of fresh drinking water.
Most of our ‘working Alberta ranch’, ‘B&B’ and ‘hotel/motel’ hunts are primarily conducted on private land, whereas our ‘remote tent’ camp and ‘motor-home/travel trailer’ camp hunts are primarily conducted on public, or crown, land.
THA recommended Hotels near the Calgary International Airport all provide free shuttle service to their respective location. To provide hunters arriving by air with maximum flexibility during their hunt, a rental vehicle is required for travel to and from camp.