Community Profiles
Thorhild County
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Whether you are looking to visit, invest, or live in Thorhild County we offer a great quality of life with everything available to a larger urban center right here in our community a short 50 minute commute northeast of the City of Edmonton along main transportation & shipping routes including hgwy. 18, 28 and 63 to Fort McMurray.
The community is admired for it's unique tourism and ag-food grower & producer attractions including the U-Pick Berry & Hemp Farm, a food market Co-operative, the Observatory, the Long Lake Ski Hill, and popular outdoor and visitor recreation destinations including Victoria Trail overlooking the Northern Saskatchewan River and an array of lake / camping / fishing destinations such as Long Lake and the Half Moon Lake Resort.
The County's economy is driven primarily by agriculture production and ranching / farming with diversification of hemp and pulse seed crops attracting future manufacturing investment opportunities and ag-food value add. We are also researching emerging global technology and clean energy opportunities of interest as we expand on our economic profile for investment attraction. We are a community embracing plans for growth and development. We have a large inventory of land and property for sale with competitive pricing and a Council that supports a friendly, open for business methodology making it easy to do business.
We welcome you.