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Located in the heart of the Alberta Badlands, roughly 2 hours east of Calgary, Dinosaur Provincial Park contains some of the world's most important fossil discoveries from the Mesozoic era. The Badlands feature dramatic erosion formations like canyons and gullies, and glacial erratic such as freestanding boulders. You won't want to miss the Museum of Paleontology, where you can see many examples of the kinds of dinosaurs that lived on this wild terrain so long ago.
Tourists to Alberta enjoy the Alberta Prairie Railway excursions, which offer a ride on one of the few working steam trains in the world.
Summer brings many festivals to Alberta. Both Calgary and Edmonton host enormous music festivals. In fact, Edmonton prides itself on being the Festival city. Many visitors to Alberta enjoy shopping at the West Edmonton Mall. The West Edmonton Mall is the largest shopping mall in North America, with over 800 stores and services. The mall encompasses over 123 acres of land. Major attractions include the theme park Galaxyland, sea life caverns, The Ice Palace, and the World Water Park.
The most popular tourist destination in Alberta is Banff National Park. In addition to the outdoor recreations opportunities offered by the park, few hotels in the world can rival the scenery of its primary hotel, Château Lake Louise. On the shores of the strikingly turquoise Lake Louise, the Château stands atop a huge glacial moraine and is surrounded by severe snowcapped mountains. Tourists come to hike and boat in the summer, and to ski the areas 4200 acres of mountain powder in the winter.
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