Day Trips from Calgary
Dinosaur Provincial Park
UNESCO World Heritage (and Geoheritage) Site
Showing the greatest known concentration of Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils (44 species).
Image credit: Jenni Scott
Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Known world-wide for its remarkable testimony of prehistoric life. The site bears witness to a custom practiced by native people of the North American plains at HSIBJ for nearly 6,000 years.
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The Burgess Shale
The first observed evidence for the “Cambrian Explosion of Life” can be found in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks.
Image credit: Murdoch McKinnon
Writing on the Stone Provincial Park
UNESCO World Heritage Site
The unusual landforms here are where significant things happened to the ancestors of the Blackfoot. It is a place where the ancient stories took place and has thousands of petroglyphs that date back over 5,000 years.
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Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
Internationally renowned museum dedicated exclusively to the study of ancient life, featuring one of the world’s largest displays of dinosaurs.
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Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
UNESCO Biosphere Reserve
Discover high mountains and deep canyons, forest belts and prairie grasslands, deep glacial-trough lakes and rivers that feed three oceans.
Image credit: Christina Skeith @flygirrrl/ Travel Alberta
Drumheller badlands and hoodoos
Explore the badlands landscapes with its hoodoos and burning coal beds.
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Blackfoot Crossing
Visit the location of the Treaty 7 signing and immerse yourself in elder story-teller, dancing performances, whilst sampling traditional Bannock (Indigenous bread). Overnight stays in tepees are possible.
Image credit: K Boggs