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Popular Things To Do | Other Things To Do Tips | All Tips (78) The Royal Tyrrell Museum is a fantastic place to visit if you are interested in Dinosaurs. The museum has the largest collection of complete Dinosaur skeletons in the world. The surrounding Dinosaur Provincial Park is considered to be among the richest fossil sites in the world.
Cost...$10.00 per adult - BARGAIN!!! Leave a Comment
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We explored the badlands a little further and ventured into the Dinosaur Provincial Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Dominated by a landscape of hoodoos, pinnacles, coulees and buttes the region is a flat to gently rolling plain with a few major hill systems, punctuated by exposed bedrock and carved sandstone cliffs. A great day of driving and exploring! Leave a Comment Address: Approx. 200 km's west of CalgaryDirections: Dinosaur Provincial Park is located in the awe-inspiring badlands about 2 hours drive east of Calgary and 48 kilometres northeast of the town of Brooks.
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Seen Dances with Wolves? The heards of Buffalo were a fantastic sight and in Alberta, while travelling from Calgary to Drumheller, you can see ranches that specialise in breeding buffalo. The Trail of the Buffalo is rich in history and has all the amenities - museums, golf courses, campgrounds, recreational facilities, accommodation, plenty of interesting and varied scenery, and many great places to visit. Leave a Comment Directions: Alberts trail of the Buffalo
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The Royal Tyrrell Museum is what draws people to Drumheller. It is a huge museam full of dinosaurs, including the Albertasaurus!
It is so interesting, anyone who is a dino buff has to go! Lots of exibits, interactive stations, as well as fossils to look at. Leave a Comment
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This tiny church fits 6 people, plus a minister in it. People have gotten married in it before. It is so cute inside of it, pews that fit on on each side, and a raised platform in the front.
Make sure you duck though before trying to walk in it!!! Leave a Comment Directions: It is located somewhere near Drumheller (if anyone knows exaclty wear - let me know!)
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The path into and along the Canyon floor presents many fine examples of erosion in the sides of the exposed walls. In some places there are changes of colour, mostly from deposits of coal and iron.
It is possible to climb some of the places that have not been aroded and are the same level as the surrounding Prairie.
There is no admission charge, but you are asked to stay on the main trails and avoid further environmental damage. Leave a Comment Directions: 10 kms west of Drumheller on highway 9.
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This Canyon is located on highway 9 but is at the other side of Drumheller, as you leave it to continue east from that city to the Saskatchewan border.
It is very similar to the first one, Horseshoe Canyon in appearance. Possibly a bit more open but just as inaccessible, since one has to climb down fairly steep paths and the risk of wet conditions and the clay like substance, can be a hazard.
It is located 10 kms northwest of Drumheller as you travel to Hanna. It is also sign posted. Leave a Comment Directions: 10kms northwest of Drumhller on Highway 9.
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The path down to the Canyon floor is narrow and can be treacherous, especially when the Bentonite material, it is like clay, is wet. It is possible to slide and fall.
The Canyon is shaped like a horseshoe, with an inlet side to the northwest and an outlet to the northeast. There is little water at the bottom now, since the Red Deer river has eroded a new course that is below the level of the Canyon. Leave a Comment Directions: Horseshow Canyon 10kms west of DRumheller on Highway 9.
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Access to Drumheller from Clagray is best using the #2 highway to Edmonton, then turn east on to Highway 9 about 9 kms north of Airdrie.
This road ais a 2 lane highway and threads its way across the mostly flat prairie for the next 90 kms, passing through a small town of Beiseker.
About 10 kms before reaching Drumheller there is marked turn off for Horseshoe Canyon. Drivel in and park and gaze across the eroded canyon sides and see the many coloured layers of rock that the Red Deer river and galciers have exposed, with further erosion from wind and rain and frost. Leave a Comment Directions: On Highway 9 about 10 kms west of Drumheller.
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The river flows along side the edge of Horsethief Canyon and is on private land. Much of the cayon walls along the river are also private property and visitors are not appreciated. Stay to the ares that are marked as accessible for visitors.
The river valley and the surrounding prairies were sites for coal mines at one time.
Just a little way to the north of Horsethief Canyon is a ferry service that operates during the summer months. Leave a Comment Directions: 10kms northwest of Drumheller on highway 9.
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