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Weird, Wild &
Wonderful: an Alberta
Family Road Trip
"You don't get a name like the Badlands if
you're an easy place to walk around in," says
our guide as he leads our family of four into
an eroded landscape of sandstone hoodoos
and water-carved coulees, deep in the Alberta
Badlands. Dinosaur Provincial Park's arid
landscape offers few hints that it was once
the swampy shore of an inland sea
where herds of centrosaurs – a kind
of horned dinosaur – congregated.
by Lisa Kadane
TRAVEL
Hoodoos of the Canadian
Badlands: these sandstone
pillars topped by stone caps dot
the rocky southeast region of
Alberta, standing five to seven
metres tall. Each one takes
millions of years to form.
