There’s a mostly gravel road adventure that goes from Fort Sask to Smokey Lake that snakes along the North Saskatchewan River. you can run it slowly in a morning and highway back home in time for a cold one in your backyard.
There’s also a fair bit of logging and O&G activity up near Athabasca, and a network of backroads to support it.
There’s also a few weekend-able trips out to Robb/Cadomin/Coalspur along the trunk road, but those are bigger bites in one day.