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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. [...] 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 [...] The Canadian Badlands of southeastern Alberta is sometimes called “The world’s largest graveyard with the biggest bones”. That’s because this massive tourism region is known for its fossil finds at Dinosaur Park and at the Royal Tyrrell, the largest museum in the world devoted to palaeontology. But did you know the Canadian Badlands is [...] I love contemporary ceramics and dabbling in clay but before visiting Medicine Hat in the Canadian Badlands of southeastern Alberta, I had no idea that this city once produced three quarters of all the pottery made in Canada. Behind the scenes at Medicine Hat’s Medalta Potteries and Historic Clay District An abundance of [...] Alberta Arts Days 2011 poster Among the pumpjacks and fields of canola, beside the farms and ranches and along the lonely roads through the badest of the badlands, the agri-industrial lifestyle of southeastern Alberta is shot through with a creative spirit that can’t be missed. You see it everywhere – from the Royal [...] Every year, there’s something new to see or do in the Canadian Badlands. The town of Irricana, 45 minutes east of Calgary, will celebrate its 100th Sports Day and Centennial with a special weekend party, July 8-9. Old photo courtesy of http://irricanacentennial.wordpress.com Sports Days are an established western tradition in the Canadian Badlands. [...] Cloud formations over the Neutral Hills The 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, [...] |
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