Kananaskis is both a County and a Village in the park system close to 4000 square kms to the west of Calgary, Alberta in Canada and it is situated in the Canadian Rockies. Kananaskis Country is recognized for the close proximity to recreation and tourist amenities. It's about 80 kilometres or a 60 minutes drive away from Calgary. The community is positioned on the western side of the Kananaskis River along at the base of Mount Kidd. The location was given its name back in 1858 by John Palliser who gave the name to the the Kananaskis River which flows through the area after an friend in the Cree first nations local community. There are several key roads which pass through the Kananaskis area. The main one being Highway 40 with a 66 km segment of the Bighorn Highway additionally getting known as the Kananaskis Trail.

Kananaskis Village is an unincorporated vacation resort community with a couple of international level hotels as well as other facilities including theKananaskis Country 36-hole Golf Course, downhill skiing at both the Fortress Mountain Resort and also the Nakiska Ski Area that hosted the freestyle moguls skiing during the 1988 Winter Olympics, equestrian amenities at Boundary Ranch and many tracks for running, trekking, mountain biking, cross-country skiing along with horse riding. The nearby competitive cross-country ski location, the Canmore Nordic Centre is open to the general public. Hunting is likewise popular in the area.

The leading resort with 247 bedrooms would be the Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge that is part of the Autograph Collection run by the Marriot chain. It had been previously called the Delta Lodge at Kananaskis. It really is considered a rustic mountain vacation resort hotel.

The region acquired international prominence in 2002 when on June 26th and 27th the location acted as host to the the 28th Summit of the G8 nations in Delta Lodge at Kananaskis in the Kananaskis Resort in the Village. It was the second occasion Canada has hosted the G8 Summit (the first being in 1981 over in Quebec). The meeting is considered to have injected about $300 million into the Kananaskis and Alberta economies, yet there were condemnation are around the supposed more than $200 million which security cost the Canadian taxpayers.