Nestled along the Sheep River Valley in the heart of the Alberta Foothills and flanked by the front range of the Rocky Mountains to the west, Okotoks is a young, friendly and growing community. Okotoks resides just 16 kilometres south of Calgary and is a thriving bedroom community for Calgary.

Okotoks is named for the Blackfoot word "okatok," which means rock. The town's major tourist attraction is a glacial erratic (boulder) left behind following the retreat of the last ice age 10,000 years ago. Erratics are rocks that are not native to the area where they are found, but were transported in the ice of a glacier during the ice age. Big Rock comes from the Wisconsin glacier (Jasper area). It sits in an open field about 10 minutes west of town, on Highway 7.

Big Rock measures 40 metres by 18 metres by 9 metres, weighs 18,000 tons and is North America's largest glacial erratic. Big Rock is the biggest among thousands in a 644 km chain called the Foothills Erratic Train.The depression around the rock was created by Plains Bison, which used the rock as a rubbing stone. On May 16, 1978, the Big Rock was the first "natural feature" to become an official Provincial Historic Site under the Alberta Historical Resources Act. Big Rock Brewery in Calgary, is named after this massive rock.

The pretty Sheep River runs through town, which has a visitor information centre in the renovated CPR train station. Okotoks’ 9,000 residents are Alberta’s fastest growing community and also the youngest community in Canada with 85 per cent of the residents being under the age of 44. Okotoks also has three golf courses: D'Arcy Ranch, Heritage Pointe, and Cottonwood.

Annual events include the Antique & Art Flea Market (late May), Annual Youth Festival (mid June), Okotoks Sports Days (mid-June), Okotoks Pro Rodeo (late August).

Today, Okotoks has a population of over 11,500 residents and it's land mass covers just under 18 square kilometers.

	Okotoks Warren & Sara Green R.R 3 High River, Alberta Canada T1V 1N3 Phone: (403) 652-9604 Fax: (403) 652-4308 E-mail: greenw@telusplanet.net Website: www.okotokshomesforsale.com
	Okotoks Royal LePage Foothills Okotoks Branch P.O. Box 27 29 Elizabeth Street Okotoks, Alberta T1S 1A4 Phone: (403) 938-4078 or (403) 938-6311 Fax: (403) 938-5269 or (403) 938-6353 E-mail: okotoks@rlfoothills.com Website: www.rlfoothills.com Toll Free: 1-888-384-4557