Sights

Waterton Lakes National Park

Waterton Lakes National Park features a meeting of the Prairies with the Rocky Mountains. This park is a good place to enjoy the beauty of the mountains combined with opportunities to view bison, deer, moose, elk and bear. The park is located on the Canada / US border at the junction of highways 2 and 6. For more information, visit Waterton Lakes National Park

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Dinosaur Provincial Park-World Heritage Site

"Dinosaur Provincial Park is located in the awe-inspiring badlands about 2 hours drive east of Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- or 48 kilometres northeast of the community of Brooks.

The Badlands

Great rivers that flowed here 75 million years ago left sand and mud deposits that make up the valley walls, hills and hoodoos of modern-day Dinosaur Provincial Park. At the end of the last ice age (about 13,000 years ago) water from the melting ice carved the valley through which the Red Deer River now flows. Today, water from prairie creeks and run-off continues to sculpt the layers more..

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url:	www.cd.gov.ab.ca
tel:	(403) 378-4342
address:	Dinosaur Provincial Park

Wood Buffalo National Park

Wood Buffalo National Park encompasses an area greater than Switzerland. This park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. The park contains a large, self-regulating bison herd and protects the only natural nesting ground of the whooping crane. The park spans the Alberta / Northwest Territories border and is accessed by driving along the Mackenzie Highway 5. Highway 5 is a hard-packed gravel road, as are most of the highways in the Northwest Territories. An open highway cannot be guaranteed in some winter months, so it would be a good idea to check local road more..

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Elk Island National Park

Elk Island National Park is located approximately one hour's drive east of Edmonton. The park features herds of free-ranging plains bison, wood bison and healthy populations of moose, deer and elk. Over 250 species of bird have been found in the park. For more information on this strikingly beautiful park, visit Elk Island National Park

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