Highlights of our Canadian Badlands roadtrips

Cloud formations over the Neutral Hills

Medalta potteryThe Medalta Potteries at the Medicine Hat Clay Industries National Historic Site. New galleries and old kilns are open to the public for tours. We love our new Medalta ware baking bowls that we bought at the  gift shop and had shipped home.

The excitement, the cowboys, and the bulls at the Oyen Bullarama.

The Lords of the Land gallery took my breath away at the Royal Tyrrell Museum.

eagle at the Alberta Birds of Prey Centre, Coaldale, AlbertaCoaldale’s Alberta Birds of Prey Centre and the great birdwatching in the Badlands

The food and the dolls at Hanna Doll Palace and Tearoom

The extraordinary truck collection at Irricana’s Pioneer Acres Museum

The sense of space on the  34,000 acre Western Uplands Ranch.

Seeing the inside of Acadia Valley’s grain elevator, a prairie icon.grain elevator at Acadia Valley

Discovering a new fruit called the honeyberry at DNA Gardens near Delburne.

The magical moonlight float we took down the Milk River under a full harvest moon. Milk River Raft Company runs these  in June, July and early August.

First Nations culture. We felt it everywhere- standing at the crest of Dry Island Buffalo Jump, visiting Blackfoot Crossing, traveling through the Neutral Hills, and celebrating the Summer Solstice at Writing-on-Stone.

sunset over Cypress Hills, southeastern AlbertaLeaving the parched prairie behind us and heading into the lush Cypress Hills, home of North America’s darkest sky preserve and some of Canada’s best stargazing.

Our tour of Custom Woollens and the peanut butter pie at Country Cousins Restaurant in Linden, Alberta

Taking in the Stettler Shootout, a Main Street drag race before boarding the Alberta Steam Train at  Stettler Station.

sitting on a bench in Big Valley, AlbertaTalking to Red Hill, steam locomotive engineer at Alberta Prairie Steam Tours and experiencing an old-fashioned community hall supper at Jubilee Hall in Big Valley

The amazing camel hoodoo and dinosaur fossils at Dinosaur Provincial Park

The Bleriot Ferry and the character running it.

The phenomenal acoustics at Drumheller’s outdoor amphitheatre, home of the Canadian Badlands Passion Play.

View of the horizon from the top of Mud Butte

1 comment to Highlights of our Canadian Badlands roadtrips

  • Debbie Appleby

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