Category: Saskatchewan

17 Photos to Put Grasslands National Park on Your Must-See List

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Saskatchewan’s Grasslands National Park is a rare place that has all the top features we look for in a travel destination – highly photogenic wild landscapes, plenty of wildlife, and no crowds. The park preserves one of the largest tracts of natural grasslands left in North America. The ruggedness of the landscape is the main reason that it escaped settlers’ plows, leaving us with extraordinary… Read more17 Photos to Put Grasslands National Park on Your Must-See List

Saskatchewan’s Surprising Avonlea Badlands

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  The Avonlea Badlands of southern Saskatchewan take you completely by surprise. There is little to prepare you for lies ahead as you walk across the gently undulating pasture. Then suddenly, the perfectly ordinary-looking pasture drops away, and you gaze below at an enchanting land of stone-capped hoodoos, weathered buttes, strange pillar formations, and eroded cliffs looking like dripping chocolate.   These badlands contain sedimentary… Read moreSaskatchewan’s Surprising Avonlea Badlands

17 Favourite New Wildlife Photos from 2017

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We had several wildlife highlights during 2017. Many were close to home, including the opening shot of coyote with a black-tailed prairie dog in Grasslands National Park. Farther afield, a definite highlight was travelling to Mexico to see the phenomenal Monarch butterfly migration. It truly is a spectacular place and surprisingly easy and economical to visit. In case you’re interested in seeing this awesome natural… Read more17 Favourite New Wildlife Photos from 2017

Exploring Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Sand Dunes

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Athabasca Sand Dunes, northern Saskatchewan

The Athabasca Sand Dunes are, quite simply, our favourite place in the world. Stretching for about 100 kilometres along the south shore of Lake Athabasca in Saskatchewan’s far north, these are the largest dunes in Canada and the largest this far north anywhere in the world. But it’s not just size that makes them unique. As we might expect, most of the world’s great sand… Read moreExploring Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Sand Dunes