Start from 23 curated places around Drumheller, CA, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Bernie and The Boys Bistro
A Drumheller institution famous for the Mammoth Burger — the kind of burger photographed for the website and large enough to share. Casual dining-room counter with kitschy 50s decor.
The Last Chance Saloon
A 1913 hotel saloon in the ghost town of Wayne, twelve kilometres south through the eleven historic bridges. Bullet holes in the wall, old west character, and burgers that come with the story.
Trails & outdoors
Hoodoos Interpretive Trail
A short paved-and-boardwalk loop at the Hoodoos Provincial Site with interpretive panels explaining the geology and erosion. The accessible introduction to badlands formations.
Horseshoe Canyon Trail
A network of unmarked trails descending from the rim viewpoint into the eroded coulees of Horseshoe Canyon. 1-6 km depending on how deep you go.
Things to do
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
Canada's flagship dinosaur museum, holding one of the world's most complete dinosaur fossil collections in a purpose-built building on the badlands' edge. Genuinely world-class.
Atlas Coal Mine National Historic Site
Canada's last surviving wooden coal-tipple processing plant, run as a National Historic Site with underground mine tours and surface walks through the original works. The badlands' best industrial-heritage stop.
Landmarks & sights
World's Largest Dinosaur
A 26-metre fibreglass T. rex on Drumheller's main street with a viewing platform inside its mouth. Goofy, beloved, and the postcard photo of the badlands.
Hoodoos Provincial Site
A protected hoodoo field off Highway 10 with the classic mushroom-capped pillars carved by erosion over millennia. The clearest, most-accessible hoodoos in the Drumheller Valley.