Welcome to the South Country Recreation Area! 

Rockglen is a natural base for exploring the entire South Country Recreation Area! Park your rig at the Information Station, Rockin Beach Regional Park or stay in any of our other comfortable accomodations as you explore the many attractions of South Country. Walk through the trees, hills and valleys taking pictures that will warm your heart next winter. 

The Tourism Information Station is a historic CPR station and a designated Saskatchewan Heritage Site. Drop in and pick up Tourism information, have a coffee and check out the local Art and Crafts, archaeological and pioneer relics.  A Regional diorama will help you visualize the massive geological forces that have formed the landscape as the last great glacier halted against the Wood Mountain Uplands. Visualize how its massive meltwaters left behind the 100 metre deep lake in which the town now stands before carving their way southeastward through the Big Muddy Badlands toward the United States.

Ask the helpful staff about local attractions such as The Effie Mattson Nature Park. Drive up Columbus Avenue to the Fish and Game Office on 5th St. North which is the entrance to the Park. Anyone who climbs Columbus, the hill in the Effie Mattson Park, will be rewarded with an excellent view of Rockglen and the surrounding country. Take your camera and record your achievement. The biological diversity of the plant life and archeologic artifacts there are there for everyone to enjoy. Please leave them where you find them.

The Queen’s Chair is found on top of the second hill north of Columbus. It is the remains of a fallen sandstone column that once was a landmark for travelers like yourself. Sandstone is fragile; please restrain the impulse to climb over it so others can see it in its natural state, too!

Rockin’ Beach Regional Park - About six kilometers east of Rockglen, just north of Highway #18 is Rockin’ Beach Regional Park. This bustling beach area has been restored for your enjoyment. Enjoy the many events scheduled throughout the summer or take advantage of the abundant parking, baseball fields, concession booth and playground equipment for your next family reunion or camping experience.

Since the lake is home to the endangered Piping Plover, you might want to take your canoe along the shores to see if you can spot one. Unfortunately because of recent dry hot summers the lake is low we can not recommend it for swimming, power boating or water skiing.

The Wood Mountain Uplands west of Rockglen are one of only four areas in North America unaffected by the last glaciation. For this reason, Pliestocene Era Mastodont, Sea Turtle and Brontosaurus relics have been found just west of town and in the Killdeer Badlands. We hope to make these archeological digs available to tourist viewing in the near future.

Enjoy your stay! Park your rig and explore our many regional attractions, each within a half hour’s drive, or ask about the availability of chartered tours.  Spend a day or a week - there'll still be plenty to see and do.