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12 affectionately known as “Old
Cow Town,” Maple Creek was
Did You Know? Medicine Hat established as a ranching
~ @ n 330 Gehring Rd SW; center in 1882. The town still
Wood Buffalo National www.tourismmedicine has a look of the Old West,
Park is is about the size hat.com with trucks and Stetson-
of Denmark, with an wearing ranchers filling the
area of 17,300 sq miles The south Saskatchewan downtown streets. Its many
original 19th-century store-
River Valley is the picturesque
(44,807 sq km).
EXPERIENCE The Prairies 11 "= Medicine Hat, which was refurbished Commercial Hotel
set ting for the town of
fronts include the elegantly
founded in 1883 as a center
with its marble-floored lobby.
The town is also well located
for natural gas extraction.
to serve as a gateway to the
Medicine Hat also became a
Wood Buffalo
hub for the manufacture of
popular Cypress Hills
National Park
clay products, due to the
Interprovincial Park.
natural abundance of clay
⌂ Fort Smith § (867) 872
7900 # Daily
the Medalta Potteries
National Historic Site in the
Canada’s largest national park along the river banks. Today, 14 "
was made a UNESCO World 150-acre (60-ha) Historic Clay Dinosaur
Heritage Site in 1983 because District is a living, working Provincial Park
of the range of habitat it offers museum dedicated to telling ⌂ Rte 544 § (403) 378
for rare species such as the the stories of the industry. 4342 # Daily
wood bison.
There are three different Medalta Potteries Two hours’ drive southeast
environments here: fire-scarred National Historic Site of the town of Drumheller,
forest uplands; a large, poorly "' = ⌂ 713 Medalta Ave the UNESCO World Heritage
drained plateau filled with SE # Tue–Sat ∑ medalta.org Site of Dinosaur Provincial
streams and bogs; and the Park, established in 1955,
Peace-Athabasca Delta, full of contains some of the world’s
sedge meadows, marshes, 13 richest fossil beds. Located
and shallow lakes. Sightings along the Red Deer River
of bald eagles and peregrine Maple Creek Valley, the park includes
falcons are common, and the @ n 114 Jasper St; www. dinosaur skele tons mostly
park is the only remaining maplecreek.ca from the late Cretaceous
natural nesting site of the Period, about 75 million
rare whooping crane in Located on the eastern years ago (p158). More than
the world. edge of the Cypress Hills and 300 mostly intact skeletons
have been discovered here,
and over 30 institutions
worldwide have specimens
from this valley on display.
From Drumheller it is
possible to drive the 30-mile

A dazzling sunset over
the hoodoos in Dinosaur
Provincial Park
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