Chipewyan Lake Alberta Map

About Chipewyan Lake, Alberta

Chipewyan Lake is a locality in 33-34-91-22-W4, Alberta, Canada. It is classified as a town. Chipewyan Lake is located at 56.9403°N, 113.4733°W.

Chipewyan Lake rests within a vast expanse of boreal forest, a place where the sky often feels close enough to touch. It lies 110.7 km north-north-east of Wabasca-Desmarais, AB (from Wabasca-Desmarais, AB: bearing 12°T), and is situated 73.5 km east-north-east of Peerless Lake. The land here is a tapestry of dark spruce and pine, punctuated by the shimmering, often ice-bound surfaces of numerous smaller lakes and sloughs that feed into the larger, named body of water. Gentle, rolling terrain, carved by ancient glaciers, supports a resilient ecosystem where mosses and lichens cling to exposed rock faces and the sandy shores of the lake. In the long summer days, the air hums with the drone of insects and the distant calls of waterfowl, while winter descends with a profound stillness, muffling the world in a blanket of snow and ice. The history of Chipewyan Lake is intimately tied to the fur trade and the Indigenous peoples who have long navigated these waterways. For centuries, the bounty of the land, particularly beaver and muskrat, sustained communities and fostered trade routes that connected this remote locale to the wider world. While the era of large-scale fur trapping has largely receded, a spirit of resourcefulness persists, with a local economy that still draws upon the land’s offerings, often through guiding, small-scale logging, and a deep connection to the rhythms of the natural environment. The very quiet of Chipewyan Lake, particularly as twilight deepens, carries with it the echoes of generations who lived by the sun and the seasons.

About This Chipewyan Lake Map Page

Explore Chipewyan Lake, Alberta, Canada, with an embedded street and satellite map — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 56.940278, -113.473333. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts — including hourly outlooks — are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.

Detailed location data for Chipewyan Lake includes the postal code (T9K), telephone area code (403, 587, 780, 825, 368). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Canadian city or town.

Location data for Chipewyan Lake is sourced from the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada, and verified by coordinates rather than name matching alone. GPS coordinates, province, administrative location and place type are shown in the information panel above.