Or contemplate the hoodoos from the water as you paddle or float down the Milk River.Įnjoy the warm lake and superb beach at Kinbrook Island Provincial Park, just 90 minutes east of Calgary. It’s a great place for birdwatching, backcountry hiking, canoeing, cycling or simply soaking up the wondrous sights.ĭiscover hundreds of sandstone hoodoos as you hike the trails and marvel at the ancient rock art at Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park. The stunning, otherworldly landscape of the Canadian Badlands teems with wildlife and unusual species, from prairie rattlesnakes and horned lizards to prickly pear cacti. Comfort camping in wood-floored tents or staying in backcountry huts is available at three provincial parks in the region. The badlands were named by early French explorers who termed their steep-sloped mesas (flat-topped mountains) and deep, winding gullies as “bad lands to cross.” Don’t miss a chance to camp and explore this otherworldly landscape. The Milk River Natural Area to the south of these hills preserves wild prairie in the same undisturbed state as when the buffalo roamed. An astonishing diversity of plants and animals make their home in the grasslands, forests and wetlands of these high, lush plateaus. It is home to the largest deposits of dinosaur bones in the world.Īt the southeast end of the badlands, the Cypress Hills rise 600 metres above the plains like a vast layer cake of sedimentary rock. Spanning east from Drumheller to the Saskatchewan border and south to the United States, this region is known as the Canadian Badlands. Today, fertile plains suddenly drop away into a world of multi-hued canyons and wind-sculpted hoodoos. Seventy-five million years ago, when dinosaurs walked the earth, southern Alberta was a subtropical paradise of towering redwoods and giant ferns.
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