Travellers who visit the province of Alberta, understandably flock to the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, e.g., Banff and Jasper.  Many may not realize that Alberta is graced with a varied landscape and that southern Alberta has a different type of natural beauty than the Rockies.  Dinosaur Provincial Park, located in the badlands, is a highlight of this region.  The park is immense, looks like another planet, and the views are fantastic.

A word of warning that while a small portion of the the Dinosaur Provincial Park can be explored independently without pre-booking, you need to be in a Park Canada tour to visit the other more interesting areas of the Park.  I strongly urge you to pre-book your tour(s) as the Park is popular.  I did not know about needing to book a tour the first time I went to Dinosaur Provincial Park in 2009, so I had to resign myself to exploring just the public area.  Nine years later, and allegedly wiser, I prebooked a tour.  Unfortunately, due to a recent rain, the tour area was off-limits.  Again, I resigned myself to exploring just the public area.  I am looking forward to trying a third time.

Please note that the world-class Royal Tyrrell Museum (of Dinosaurs) is not located near the Dinosaur Provincial Park.  The Royal Tyrrell Museum, which I also highly recommend, is in a town of Drumheller, about 2-hour drive away from the Park .