Rainbow Lake

Rainbow Lake occupies a lakeside position in northwestern Alberta, close to the borders with British Columbia and the Northwest Territories. The town stands beside its namesake lake amid the boreal lowlands of the surrounding Mackenzie County, far from Alberta’s major cities and mountain corridors. Its modern history is closely connected with petroleum exploration: discovery of the Rainbow Lake oil field in the 1960s spurred the community’s development, and oil and gas remain important to the local economy. This is a working northern town, where road services and air links support a wide, sparsely settled resource region. View additional webcams nearby to better understand how Rainbow Lake relates to Alberta’s northern borderlands.

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