Southern Alberta

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Essential Destinations

Medicine Hat

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Medicine Hat is a city of 63,000 people in the Southern Alberta region of Alberta. It's also known as the Gas City thanks to its vast reserves of natural gas.

Lethbridge

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Lethbridge is a city in southern Alberta. It is a commercial hub for the many smaller farming and ranching communities in the surrounding area. It is quiet and on the small side, but has a friendly population.

Dinosaur Provincial Park

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Dinosaur Provincial Park is a provincial park near Brooks, in Southern Alberta. It has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for the 58 unique dinosaur species have been discovered at the park and for its badlands landscape.

Destinations to Discover

Waterton Lakes National Park

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Waterton Lakes National Park is the Canadian portion of Waterton Glacier International Peace Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site and Biosphere Reserve which extends into the US as Glacier National Park.

Brooks

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Brooks is a small town of about 15,000 people in the Southern Alberta region of Alberta, Canada. It's a good jumping-off point for exploring the fossils and badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park.

Drumheller

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Drumheller is a town in the Southern Alberta region of Alberta, famous for the rich deposits of fossils found in the area. It is an important centre for Palaeontology in Canada.

Hanna

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Hanna is a small town of 2,400 people in the Southern Alberta region of Alberta. Be careful about what you say about the band Nickelback, Hanna is proud to be their home.

Fort Macleod

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Fort Macleod is a town of about 3,000 people in Southern Alberta, Canada. It lies to the south of Oldman River.

Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park

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Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, also known as the Áísínai'pi National Historic Site is in Southern Alberta. It has the greatest concentration of rock art on the North American Great Plains, and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Milk River

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Milk River is a town in Alberta, Canada that is named after the Milk River which flows immediately to its south. This location results in Milk River being one of the few Canadian communities within the Mississippi River drainage system.

Claresholm

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Claresholm is a town located within southern Alberta, Canada. It is located on Highway 2, approximately 91 km northwest of the City of Lethbridge and 125 km south of the City of Calgary.

Vulcan

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Vulcan is a town in Southern Alberta. It draws on its fictional namesake for its fame, billing itself as the "Official Star Trek Capital of Canada."…

Cardston

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Cardston is a town of about 3,600 people in the foothills of Southern Alberta. It was founded by a number of Mormon families from Utah and their temple was the first built outside of the United States.

Taber

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Taber is a small town of 8,400 people in the Southern Alberta region of Alberta, Canada. Taber is famous for its corn due to the large amounts of sunshine the area receives, and is known as the Corn Capital of Canada.

Pincher Creek

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Pincher Creek is a town of about 3,600 people in the foothills of Southern Alberta. It is a good base for exploring provincial parks in the region, and has some heritage sites.

Nanton

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Nanton is a town of 2,100 in Southern Alberta. Traditionally a farming and ranching community, Nanton is now a popular tourist destination for its historic main Street and museums.

Oyen

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Oyen is a town in Southern Alberta, Canada near the Saskatchewan boundary and north of Medicine Hat. It is on Highway 41, 4 km south of its junction with Highway 9.

Crowsnest Pass

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Crowsnest Pass is in Southern Alberta, Canada. Gateway to the southern Alberta and some of the last untouched beauty of the Canadian Rockies. It is on the Crowsnest Highway.

East Coulee

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East Coulee is a small community in the Southern Alberta region of Alberta, Canada, near the community of Cambria. It is part of the Town of Drumheller, which is a hub for dinosaur tourism.

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