Category: travel hints

Narrow Hills Scenic Drive Top for Saskatchewan Fall Colours

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Narrow Hills Provincial Park, Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan abounds with great scenic drives during fall colour season, but if we had to pick one it would be the aptly named Narrow Hills Scenic Drive in Narrow Hills Provincial Park. The hills are named for the enormous masses of rocks, soil, and debris pushed into ridges by moving glaciers. The forest diversity of spruce, jack pine, aspen, birch, willow, and tamarack combine in… Read moreNarrow Hills Scenic Drive Top for Saskatchewan Fall Colours

Saskatchewan Road Trip to the Crooked Bush

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This route goes through some of the most scenic parts of the Thickwood Hills northeast of The Battlefords, and includes one of Saskatchewan’s most unusual natural phenomena—the famous Crooked Bush. We get there along Burma Road, and with a name like that you just know it has to be a great drive. The roads are mostly good gravel, with some pavement. A few short sections… Read moreSaskatchewan Road Trip to the Crooked Bush

Visiting Mexico’s Marvelous Monarchs

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Monarch Butterflies at El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Mexico.

As soon as the morning sun warms the air, the forest and sky spring to life. Bold splashes of orange speckle the blue sky as countless monarchs take flight and land on branches, logs, the ground, and even on our heads and shoulders. The sound is unlike anything we have heard before: a gentle, whispering whir like a million pieces of confetti swirling in the… Read moreVisiting Mexico’s Marvelous Monarchs