Drumheller - Dinosaur Trail

The Dinosaur Trail along Highway 838, a tour 48 km (30 mi.) long to the west of the town along Red Deer River which cuts its way more than 120 m (400 ft) deep into the prairie, takes in the area of steep and barren rocky slopes, from which wind and rain have carved the mushroom-shaped pillars known as "hoodoos" and revealed whole dinosaur skeletons. Ancient river-courses have carved up the prairie here into rocky tablelands on which grass struggles to grow where the soil has not been completely eroded.