[2024 Kneehill County Attraction] Travel Guide for Horseshoe Canyon (Updated Sep)

Unique Geological Canyon and Fossil Museum

Today, let's take you to Drumheller, Canada, which is near Calgary. This is a wonderful place full of ancient secrets 😜. This article introduces the attractions here, making it perfect for a half-day to one-day tour! If you are passing through Calgary on your way to Banff National Park, why not stop by and take a look? The scenery is absolutely unique! 📍🌟🌟Drumheller is located near Calgary in central-western Canada and is known as the "Dinosaur Capital." The unique geology here, with sandstone canyons, peculiar landforms, and abundant fossils, is simply a paradise for paleontologists and archaeologists. 📍🌟Famous Royal Tyrell Museum This museum is world-renowned for its rich collection of dinosaur fossils. The various lifelike dinosaur fossils make you feel as if you have traveled back to prehistoric times. The exhibitions not only showcase the diversity of dinosaurs but also display different biological fossils according to Earth's evolution and different periods. It is one of the best dinosaur museums in the world! Triceratops, Ankylosaurus, Plesiosaurus, Pterodactyl, Tyrannosaurus, Hadrosaurus, Velociraptor, Stegosaurus, from the Paleozoic to the Mesozoic, Triassic to Jurassic to Cretaceous, all the way to modern times. 📍🌟Right at the entrance of the museum is the famous badland lookout, Royal Tyrrell Museum Lookout. You can walk up to overlook the entire area, with distant mountains and layered structures, spectacular and magical. The red and gray rock layers, weathered and eroded over thousands of years, form various shapes, some like spires, some like ridges, and some like cliffs, making you feel like you are on the surface of Mars! 📍🌟Hiking Route: Badlands Interpretive Trail, a simple 1-mile route where you can walk into the badlands and admire the layered rocks and peaks up close, perfect for taking beautiful photos! 📍🌟Hoodoos Trail, a short hiking spot with parking, where you can see some wind-eroded rock towers, very interesting. Willow Creek Hoodoos stone pillars and stone forest 📍🌟Horseshoe Canyon Other attractions, if you have time, you can check out: 📍Orkney Viewpoint 📍Atlas Coal Mine National Historic Site 📍Midland Provincial Park, which also has many geological wonders and hiking trails 📍World's Largest Dinosaur sculpture 📍The Little Church in the desert