Drumheller Full-Day Tour: Explore Horseshoe Canyon and the renowned Tyrrell Museum

Embark on a full-day tour of Drumheller, the Dinosaur Capital of the World. Explore Horseshoe Canyon and the renowned Tyrrell Museum, home to the world’s largest displays of dinosaurs. Discover the Badlands region and indulge in scenic flights, historic tours, cute restaurants, and hiking trails.

Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Horseshoe Canyon - Experience this 3.9-km loop trail near Rosebud, Alberta. Generally considered a moderately challenging route, it takes an average of 1 h 3 min to complete. This is a very popular area for birding, hiking, and snowshoeing.

Horseshoe Canyon near Drumheller is a popular place to experience the beauty of the badlands, an ancient landscape of heavily eroded soft rock.

Dinosaurs found in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation include Albertavenator, Albertosaurus, Anchiceratops, Anodontosaurus, Arrhinoceratops and Atrociraptor to name a few!
Try your luck and find a few! They still find fossils today!

  • Royal Tyrrell Museum - The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology is Canada’s only museum dedicated exclusively to the study of ancient life. In addition to featuring one of the world’s largest displays of dinosaurs, we offer a wide variety of creative, fun, and educational programs that bring the prehistoric past to life.
  • Drumheller - We’ll explore this unique little town, great sites and dinosaurs everywhere you look!

We can grab a bite and the famous Saloon or a couple of other great little spots.

Each trip is unique and we will explore together in a way that works for you!

What's Included
  • Guided Tour
  • Mountain Glacier Water
  • Snacks
  • Parking
  • Entrance into the Tyrell Museum
What's Not Included
  • lunch
Additional Information

Being the Dinosaur Capital of the World, Drumheller offers visitors the world-class Royal Tyrrell Museum which takes visitors into the not-so-distant past when dinosaurs roamed the earth. It houses the world’s largest displays of dinosaurs and Canada’s only museum dedicated exclusively to paleontology.

The region is called the Badlands, and back when the dinosaurs were around, the area provided the perfect conditions to create fossils

With that said, Drumheller offers a lot more than just dinosaur fossils. In fact, there are a ton of awesome things to do in Drumheller including scenic flights and historic tours. You’ll find cute restaurants here and plenty of hiking trails. Honestly, it’s such a fun place to visit and you’ll keep busy exploring all the best things to do and see in Drumheller.

Location
Central Library
3 Street Southeast
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Emma_t
Oct 13, 2023
Wonderful Tour - Sue was lovely, she picked us up right outside our hotel, so we did not need to worry about traveling anywhere ourselves first. Perfect for us as we did not have a car. The tour group was quite small, which meant Sue could be very accommodating about what we and the other people on the tour wanted to do. I had been very excited about the Royal Tyrrell Museum trip, so she planned for my boyfriend and me to stay for as long as we liked while offering other options to the other participants if they did not want to stay longer. We ended up spending over 5 hours at the museum! The walk through Horseshoe Canyon was beautiful, and not too difficult with only a short flight of stairs down to the bottom of the canyon and an easy flat path once down there. We visited at the end of the tour, so the sun was starting to set as we walked, really highlighting the canyon walls. We and the other tour group participants had nothing else planned for the rest of the day so Sue prolonged the tour, allowing us to get as much out of the day at Drumheller as possible. Sue was very social and entertained us the entire drive to Drumheller (which was over an hour's drive from Calgary).
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Teecy2023
Oct 11, 2023
Such a unique experience - Such an amazing tour of Drumheller. The landscape was unique and the museum was world class. Sue was such a wonderful guide and was so accommodating. Would highly recommend.
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