The Smoothstone River winds through the remote boreal wilderness of Saskatchewan, beginning at Wabeno Lake in the Waskesiu Upland within Prince Albert National Park and flowing westward and northward through a chain of lakes before emptying into Pinehouse Lake, itself a lake along the storied Churchill River system. The river traverses boreal forests and muskeg through the Mid-Boreal Upland, offering a true northern Canadian fishing experience in a landscape shaped by glacial history and characterized by the wild, unspoiled character of the boreal plains ecozone.