The Porcupine Hills refer to geographical features located in the prairie provinces of Canada.

Manitoba-Saskatchewan

A feature known as the Porcupine Hills is located in the Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 provinces of Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

 and Manitoba

Manitoba

Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

. They are part of the Manitoba Escarpment, which was the shoreline of the glacial Lake Agassiz

Lake Agassiz

Lake Agassiz was an immense glacial lake located in the center of North America. Fed by glacial runoff at the end of the last glacial period, its area was larger than all of the modern Great Lakes combined, and it held more water than contained by all lakes in the world today.-Conception:First...

. They are located northwest of Swan River, Manitoba

Swan River, Manitoba

-Economy:The economic base of the town lies in agriculture and forestry along with support industries for same.Almost fifty percent of the surrounding area is under cultivation, most of which is seeded to cereal grain, oilseeds, and other specialty crops. Wheat, rye, barley, oats, flax, and canola...

, and are the headwaters of the Swan River. The highest elevation in the Porcupine Hills is Hart Mountain

Hart Mountain (Manitoba)

At 823 metres, Hart Mountain in Manitoba is the highest peak in the Porcupine Hills of central Canada. It is located 43 km NNW of Swan River....

, at an elevation of 823m, Manitoba's second highest point. Porcupine Provincial Forest surrounds the area.

Alberta

There is also a geographical feature known as the Porcupine Hills

Porcupine Hills Formation

The Porcupine Hills Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Paleocene age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.It takes the name from the Porcupine Hills in south-western Alberta, and was first described in outcrop by George Mercer Dawson in 1883....

in southern Alberta. The area gets its name from the Douglas-fir and pine trees that populate the crests of the hills. The region includes montane and subalpine forest, aspen parkland and prairie grassland.