Dinosaur Provincial Park
UNESCO World Heritage (and Geoheritage) Site

Showing the greatest known concentration of Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils (44 species).

Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump
UNESCO World Heritage Site

Known world-wide for its remarkable testimony of prehistoric life. The site bears witness to a custom practiced by native people of the North American plains at HSIBJ for nearly 6,000 years.

The Burgess Shale

The first observed evidence for the “Cambrian Explosion of Life” can be found in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks.

Image credit: Murdoch McKinnon

Writing on the Stone Provincial Park
UNESCO World Heritage Site

The unusual landforms here are where significant things happened to the ancestors of the Blackfoot. It is a place where the ancient stories took place and has thousands of petroglyphs that date back over 5,000 years.

Image credit: Alberta Parks

Royal Tyrell Museum of Palaeontology

Internationally renowned museum dedicated exclusively to the study of ancient life, featuring one of the world’s largest displays of dinosaurs.

Image credit: Royal Tyrell Museum