{"id":772815,"date":"2026-07-01T07:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/772815\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:15:10","slug":"stranded-campers-able-to-leave-drenched-kananaskis-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/772815\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranded campers able to leave drenched Kananaskis Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Alberta government says crews have finished evacuating remaining campers who were stranded at sites in Kananaskis Country due to heavy rain and landslides <\/p>\n

Parks Alberta Minister Todd Loewen said earlier Tuesday that about 50 people were sheltering in place in the area, which remains under a local state of emergency.<\/p>\n

In a later post on social media, Loewen says everyone in the area can leave safely.<\/p>\n

More than 100 kilometres of roads in provincial parks along Alberta’s Rocky Mountains had been closed because of landslides and flooding.<\/p>\n

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Heavy rainfall causes damage, strands campers west of Calgary<\/p>\n

A local state of emergency is in place for the town of Canmore and Kananaskis Improvement District. It comes after more than 100 millimetres of rain fell in a 24-hour period, causing some damage and trapping people in the backcountry overnight.<\/p>\n

Communities across Alberta have been hammered by rain<\/a> in recent days, and there’s a flood warning for the Elbow River, which flows from Kananaskis Country east into Calgary.<\/p>\n

Canmore rescinded its local state of emergency but is keeping a high stream-flow advisory in place to warn those in the town to stay away from embankments.<\/p>\n

“Work continues to ensure Kananaskis remains a safe place to visit and recreate for Albertans and our visitors,” Loewen said in the post Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“There are also some individuals and groups who have chosen to stay, and continue with their plans to enjoy Alberta’s K-Country.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-772815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}