Hinton it is located in Yellowhead County, 81 kilometres (50 mi) northeast of Jasper and about 284 kilometres (176 mi) west of Alberta's capital city, Edmonton, at the intersection of Yellowhead and Bighorn Highway, in the Athabasca River valley.
Population: 9,889
Latitude: 53° 24' 0.32" N
Longitude: -117° 35' 8.41" W
The Hinton train collision was a railway accident that occurred on February 8, 1986. Twenty-three people were killed in a collision between a Canadian National Railway freight train and a Via Rail passenger train. It was the most lethal Canadian rai…
Jasper-Hinton Airport, (IATA: YJP, TC LID: CEC4), is located 9.5 nautical miles (17.6 km; 10.9 mi) southwest of Hinton, Alberta, Canada.
Hinton/Entrance Airport (TC LID: CEE4) is located 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) west of Hinton, Alberta, just north of the Athabasca River.
Entrance is an unincorporated community in central Alberta in Yellowhead County, located on Highway 40, 61 kilometres (38 mi) northwest of Jasper.
Drinnan is a former village in western Alberta, Canada.
The Hinton railway station is on the Canadian National Railway mainline in Hinton, Alberta. The station is served by Via Rail's The Canadian three times per week in each direction as a flag stop (48 hours advance notice required). The station was op…