Whether it’s the World’s Largest Dinosaur in Drumheller or creating with clay in Medicine Hat, the Canadian Badlands offers a variety of unique, fun getaways.
The Canadian Badlands website has eight kid-friendly tours for you to download and have fun with. Go to www.canadianbadlands.com, click on Touring Routes and select Kids Tours and you’ll find them complete with potential destinations and activities to do in the car while you’re en route.
On the Homesteads, Bonebeds and Coalbeds Driving Tour you’ll seek out the Atlas Coal Mine, where this year you can explore the depths of a brand new mining shaft recreated in authentic 19th century style. A boondoggle of bones also awaits at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller. Thinking small? The Little Church in Drumheller will fit the bill, but perhaps not your whole family at once.
Get out to Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park as part of the Red Coats and Coulees Driving Tour and find aboriginal petroglyphs carved into the sandstone cliffs near the Milk River The blacksmith shop and pony barn at Echo Dale Farm in Medicine Hat are among numerous fun places to visit as a part of this tour.
Every community in the Canadian Badlands has something to interest youth, be it swimming pools, real working ferries, animal farms or train stations.
Thinking big? Drumheller’s giant T-Rex is 82 feet tall. Medicine Hat’s teepee – once part of the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics – stands 200 feet high. There’s the 314-foot high, mile-long High Level Bridge in Lethbridge, a 600-pound alligator at Reptile World in Drumheller, two seven-foot tall potatoes guarding Vauxhall and a 15-foot tall pinto bean in Bow Island.
The Birds of Prey Centre in Coaldale features burrowing owls that fit in the palm of your hand and a flock of ducks, which are always a hit.
Museums in the Canadian Badlands are built with kids in mind. There are hundreds of hands-on exhibits at the Galt Museum in Lethbridge, Devils Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum in Warner, Hanna’s Pioneer Village, and of course the Royal Tyrrell Museum just to name a few.
You’ll also see a collection of other tours on the website ranging from family fishing to bird watching and more. Plan your next great adventure in the Canadian Badlands.
