If you’re a dino hunter of the first order, and you’re adventurous and brave at heart, once you’ve ascended to the gaping maw of the world’s largest Tyrannosaurus rex, once you’ve finished with the amazing exhibits at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, you’ll want to hit the road and make your way down to Dinosaur Provincial [...]
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Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park is full of badlands formations Planning a Canadian Badlands road trip and hoping to camp? Check out the new comfort campsites in this Dinosaur Provincial Park video. [...] We’re always on the lookout for good tweets and Facebook posts to source on road trips. Here are some for the Canadian Badlands. Drumheller’s famous T-Rex mascot Drumheller Dinosaur fossils have put Drumheller (pop. 8000) on the world map. You’ll find them at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, the world’s largest museum devoted to palaentology. [...] John Ware, Alberta’s most famous cowboy, will be commemorated on a new Canadian stamp. The stamp will be issued by Canada Post on February 1, 2012, to honour Black History Month (February). John Ware defied stereotypes and rose to folk hero status in Alberta. His remarkable story begins in South Carolina where he was born into [...] We were dusty, hot and thirsty when we turned off the TransCanada highway and began the climb into Cypress Hills, a green oasis on a parched, summer prairie landscape. Canada’s only interprovincial park is a year-round destination that straddles the Alberta- Saskatchewan border, one hour east of Medicine Hat. Sunset at Cypress Hills Interprovincial [...] 
Squirt the skunk, mascot of Beiseker, Alberta Town mascots, interesting advertising and bizarre geographic oddities are a part of every Canadian Badlands roadtrip. On our last trip in southeastern Alberta we came across Drumheller’s Dinosaur (again), the Big Woman and Cornstalk in Taber, Gleichen’s Buffalo, Bow Island’s giant Bean Pot, Pinto the Bean, [...] There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The Canadian Badlands are dotted with “Mascots”. Perhaps the most well known is the 86-foot T-rex in Drumheller, but if you snoop around a bit, you”ll find quirky charactors and giant, over-sized objects of all kinds in the most unlikely places. Not far east of Red Deer, towards Rochon Sands Provincial Park, we found [...] Just south of Siksika Nation and not far from the Hamlet of Mossleigh in Vulcan County we stumbled upon the Village of Arrowwood. It’s a very pleasant place with a population of about 225. Our curiosity was piqued by a large wooden tube resting at the side of the road. It having obviously been [...] One minute we’re following our friend’s RV. The next minute she and the RV have disappeared. It’s a regular occurrence in the Canadian Badlands. Drive open prairie and suddenly, a river valley that you didn’t see coming, swallows you up. We were on our first road trip to the southeastern Alberta tourism region when we [...] |
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