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- Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan. Two blocks of mixed-grass prairie in the south of the province, with black-tailed prairie dog towns, plains bison and some of the darkest skies in Canada. The 70 Mile Butte trail and the Frenchman River Valley are the easy walks. Park entry is about US$5 to 6 for an adult day pass.
- Wanuskewin Heritage Park, Saskatoon. A working archaeological site on the South Saskatchewan River where Northern Plains peoples gathered for about 6,000 years. You walk bison-jump and tipi ring sites, and the café serves Indigenous dishes.
- Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller. One of the world's great dinosaur collections, set in the Alberta Badlands. The skeleton halls are dark, cool and enormous. Expect to spend three hours.
- Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta. A UNESCO site of
- Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan. Two blocks of mixed-grass prairie in the south of the province, with black-tailed prairie dog towns, plains bison and some of the darkest skies in Canada. The 70 Mile Butte trail and the Frenchman River Valley are the easy walks. Park entry is about US$5 to 6 for an adult day pass.
- Wanuskewin Heritage Park, Saskatoon. A working archaeological site on the South Saskatchewan River where Northern Plains peoples gathered for about 6,000 years. You walk bison-jump and tipi ring sites, and the café serves Indigenous dishes.
- Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller. One of the world's great dinosaur collections, set in the Alberta Badlands. The skeleton halls are dark, cool and enormous. Expect to spend three hours.
- Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta. A UNESCO site of hoodoos and coulees where fossil beds sit exposed in the ground. Join a guided bus or hike to enter the restricted areas.
- Forks National Historic Site, Winnipeg. The meeting of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers has been a trading place for thousands of years. Today it holds a market hall, river paths and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights next door.
- Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park. A forested plateau straddling the Alberta and Saskatchewan border, standing well above the surrounding plains. Lodgepole pine, elk, and a dark sky preserve make it a cool, quiet change from the flat country around it.
- Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba. Aspen forest, lakes and an enclosure of plains bison at Lake Audy, about 45 minutes from Wasagaming. Rent a canoe on Clear Lake at Wasagaming.
- Moose Jaw Tunnels and Temple Gardens Mineral Spa. Moose Jaw has Prohibition-era tunnel tours and a hot mineral pool open year-round, a good place to soak after dusty roads.
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai'pi, Alberta. A sacred Blackfoot landscape of sandstone hoodoos along the Milk River, carved with thousands of petroglyphs. The guided tour is the way in to the main rock art area.
- Reesor Lake and Maple Creek town. Maple Creek is a small ranching town with old brick storefronts and saloon-style bars. Locals use it as a gateway to Cypress Hills and the back roads around it, and few outsiders linger.
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