April Squares: Canadian Badlands
After our 2017 road trip in the Canadian Rockies we headed for a very different area of Alberta – the Badlands. We were blown away by the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller. Here I am feeling on top of the world on its Badlands Interpretive Trail.
Another place we found fascinating and amazing was Dinosaur Provincial Park. Here it’s John’s turn to take the top spot.
If you have just joined my gallivanting, and fancy some armchair travel, I have four posts about the Canadian Badlands:
Linked to Becky’s #SquareTops challenge.
The Glasgow Gallivanter 
I’ve never been to the Badlands in Alberta although we have a much (MUCH!) smaller version here in southern Ontario. It’s on my very long list of places to visit someday.
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It was fabulous, Joanne. I wish we’d had longer there.
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We loved the Badlands, Anabel and we want to take our grandchildren. The museum is excellent. We took a bus/van day trip into an area being excavated (I think that is the word). I bookmarked this post with your other links and I will show it to my daughter (the Mom of the grandchildren.)
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We didn’t do enough research before we went so it was too late to book anything like that, but the publicly accessible bits were fabulous anyway.
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I remember comparing our experiences with yours in the Alberta badlands in 2017. Until shortly before our trip we hadn’t heard about that region, either, even though we’d visited Badlands National Park in South Dakota a few months earlier. You’re right that the Drumheller area is a popular place. The first time we tried visiting the museum there, in mid-August, we found people standing five deep in front of the exhibits. I turned our tickets back in and tried again three weeks later, just past the end of the tourist season, when crowds had thinned a lot.
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I remember it being very busy, but we went in the early morning and got straight in. Huge queues when we came out! We were only there for two days so we had to go then.
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What made our first attempt even more frustrating is that we did go at opening time and still found the place mobbed.
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😟
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I have yet to see this place. I would love to visit but John is too close to the edge:)
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It’s worth going to. You know we always like to be edgy!
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Another scenic spot. If we can ever summon up the courage to drive on the wrong side of the road again we would love to do a road trip across Canada.
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I’m lucky, John loves the driving.
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I’m not a very good passenger on the wrong side.
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So much of Canada is still largely unknown and reported outside of the country. Finding that with Race Across The World as well- so much world class scenery there I’ve never even heard of let alone visited. Surprisingly so in an information and photo covered world that there’s still empty places left few have encountered.
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True. I think this area is quite popular though I didn’t know much about it before we went. It certainly didn’t occur to us in the trip 10 years before.
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We’ve been to the Badlands National Park in South Dakota, but not to the one in Canada. The landscape was stunning… similar to your photos (but I don’t remember seeing any/much greenery.
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I’ve not been there. Someone else mentioned it *adds to list*!
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These landscapes are stunning. I struggle to get my head around the scale.
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I do love these weird landscapes, just as much as the soaring mountains.
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What’s not to like about Badlands? 🙂 🙂
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Absolutely nothing’s not to like! Is that too many negatives?
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Never 🙂 🙂
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I love the badlands! I grew up in Saskatchewan, but never visited until about 6 years ago when we drove across western Canada to go to a wedding. Stunning!
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We thought so! The Rockies had been very hazy because of all the fires that year, so the views were much clearer on this part of the trip.
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I’ve never been there, but I’ve seen badlands in North Dakota: they are simply fascinating to me because of their colours.
Take care, and stay healthy,
Pit
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Yes, I love the colours too. I haven’t been to North Dakota but have seen similar colours in Utah.
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If this challenge has proved anything, you’ve definitely earned the moniker “Gallivanter”!
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Ha ha! I have a couple more overseas posts to come, then it’s back to Bonnie Scotland for the rest of the month.
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LOVE your Canadian features!
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We loved Canada. Don’t think we’ll be back anytime soon 😟.
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I find badlands to be among the interesting habitats. Unusual plants and colorful soils. Big sky.
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Yes, and so unlike anything that we have here.
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I remember walking in the Badlands with my parents, must did out my photos!
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That would be good to see! The Badlands won’t have changed much, but you might have …
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After getting on the scales this morning I suspect my 1988 me will be unrecognisable compared to the me today!
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Get away! You’re just a skelf.
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well I was . . . . but you should see how much bread I am eating these days!!
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Lovely photos. You probably won’t believe it but we have never been to Western Canada. Pierre & I have been to Calgary & Vancouver on business but never as tourists. Maybe in this new age of border closures, we will visit our own country this year… (Suzanne)
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Really! We have been to the Rockies twice but this was our first visit to the Badlands. I’d love to go back there and explore for longer.
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Actually, Canada is a very large country and flying to Calgary or Vancouver is often more expensive than flying to London or Paris. So when it is time to plan destinations we often chose to east (toward Europe) than west (toward our own country)…
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