We got home from holidays on Sunday, August 23rd but I’ve been tuckered out, finishing off packing … and of course doing quite a bit of coffee-ing with friends. Time to get caught up on our holidays!
On Monday, August 17th we left Rhett & Leah’s in Calgary. It was a beautiful, sun-shining morning as we headed out to Dinosaur Provincial Park which is about a half hour north of Brooks AB. The photo above is as we enter the park area. What always amazes me is that the landscape of southeastern Alberta is so absolutely flat … more extensively flat than the part of SK where I grew up. As you approach you begin to see this rift in the earth where the badlands occurs. It’s not such a wide breach and then it is back to the absolutely flat tabletop grassland.
We have camped at the park numerous times, but it has likely been fifteen years since we were last here. There are a number of short hikes from the campsite area. Although the Royal Tyrrell Museum is the primary tourist destination (we did drive north to Drumheller to visit the museum as well) it is Dinosaur Prov. Park which is where the fossil beds are located in wich most of the digs are taking place. You can take half day hikes out to the work sites (only on a scheduled hike with a guide.)
Click here to see a number of photos of the badlands, including our drive up to Drumheller which included driving back into a very scenic valley. At Dorothy AB, a near ghost town, there were several old buildings as well as the Atlas Coal Mine which is a historic site to visit.