Proximity to Large Urban Markets

GAER has the feel of frontier country, yet it’s close to the action!

Most of the region is within an easy drive of one of Canada’s most dynamic urban areas.

Just off the region’s eastern boundary, metro Edmonton is nearly one million strong and one of Canada’s fastest growing cities (ranked #1 in 2004).

The Edmonton-Red Deer-Calgary corridor lays claim to a thriving per capita gross domestic product, 40 per cent higher than the Canadian metropolitan average and 10 per cent higher than the average for U.S. metro areas.

Regional Travel Times to Edmonton
Place	Times	Distances
Edson	2 hrs	199 km
Drayton Valley	1 hr 30 min	140 km
Hinton	2 hrs 45 min	287 km
Jasper	3 hrs 45 min	356 km
Whitecourt	1 hr 45 min	179 km
Fox Creek	2 hrs 30 min	280 km
Grande Cache	4 hrs 15 min	427 km