Drumheller, Alberta, Canada

Drumheller is northeast of Calgary about 100 miles. It is world famous for dinosaurs and other fossils – if you enjoy these or interested in prehistoric history, geology, and other topics. The area is referred to the Canadian Badlands.

Joseph Tyrrell found coal in 1884 and mining began in 1911. It became a city in 1930. This area has vast amounts of coal (no mining currently) and petroleum. With the settlers and mining, people found some fossils and has grown significantly.

This area was covered by an Ice Field about 10,000 years ago. The fossils in this area go back 75 million years ago. Think of 75 million years of earth sediment layers being stripped away with the ice movement and water erosion to create the area carved valleys hundreds of miles long exposing a very small fraction of dinosaurs and other types of fossils. Even today with continued erosion and active dig sites, new items are found.