Places to visit in Alberta, Canada
18 places to visit in Alberta, Canada, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Banff National Park, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Alberta volume.
6 UNESCO World Heritage sites · 9 Famous places to visit · 3 Hidden gems
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Alberta (6)
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Banff National Park
Canada's first national park, established in 1885 as Rocky Mountains Park, in the Alberta Rockies west of Calgary. It covers 6,641 square kilometres of mountains, glaciers, forests and turquoise lakes, and the town of Banff sits inside its boundaries.
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Dinosaur Provincial Park
Badlands along the Red Deer River about 220 kilometres east of Calgary. It holds one of the richest dinosaur fossil beds on Earth, with remains from some 75 million years ago, and visitors can walk its coulees on guided hikes.
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Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
A museum and archaeological site west of Fort Macleod in Alberta. For nearly 6,000 years Blackfoot hunters drove bison over the sandstone cliff here, and an interpretive centre built into the hill tells the story.
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Jasper National Park
The largest national park in the Alberta Rockies, spanning 11,000 square kilometres. It was set up as Jasper Forest Park in 1907, renamed a national park in 1930 and later declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site together with neighbouring Rocky Mountain parks.
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Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
A park joining Waterton Lakes in Alberta with Glacier in Montana, set up as the world's first international peace park in 1932. The Canadian side meets prairie and mountains at Upper Waterton Lake, with the Prince of Wales Hotel above the shore.
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Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park
A provincial park on the Milk River in southern Alberta, with tall sandstone hoodoos. It holds one of the largest groups of rock art on the Great Plains, carved and painted by Blackfoot people, who call the place Áísínai'pi.
Famous places to visit in Alberta (9)
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Calgary Tower
A 190.8 metre free standing observation tower in downtown Calgary. Originally called the Husky Tower, it was conceived as a joint venture between Marathon Realty and Husky Oil, and it has an observation deck with a glass floor.
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Columbia Icefield
The largest ice field in the Rocky Mountains, straddling the Alberta and British Columbia border along the Icefields Parkway. Its Athabasca Glacier reaches down close to the road, and guided tours run onto the ice.
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Fairmont Banff Springs
A historic hotel in Banff, Alberta, long known as the Banff Springs Hotel. It is a castle like building above the Bow River, and the whole town around it lies inside Banff National Park.
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Lake Louise
A glacial lake in Banff National Park whose turquoise colour comes from rock flour carried in by meltwater. Victoria Glacier fills the far end, and the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise stands on the shore.
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Lake Minnewanka
A glacial lake in the eastern part of Banff National Park, about five kilometres northeast of Banff townsite. It is 21 kilometres long and 142 metres deep, the second longest lake in the Canadian mountain parks.
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Moraine Lake
A glacier fed lake in the Valley of the Ten Peaks in Banff National Park, at about 1,885 metres. Its vivid blue water and the peaks behind it once appeared on the Canadian twenty dollar bill.
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Peyto Lake
A glacier fed lake in Banff National Park, reached by a short walk to a viewing platform off the Icefields Parkway. Its fox like shape and bright turquoise colour make it one of the most photographed spots in the Rockies.
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Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
A palaeontology museum and research facility in Drumheller, in the Alberta badlands. It is named for Joseph Burr Tyrrell and fills a 12,500 square metre building with dinosaur skeletons from the region's rich fossil beds.
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West Edmonton Mall
A giant shopping centre in Edmonton, opened in stages from 1981. It also holds an indoor water park, an amusement park with a roller coaster, and an ice rink, and it ranks among the largest malls in North America.
Hidden gems in Alberta (3)
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Heritage Park Historical Village
A living history museum on 127 acres of parkland beside the Glenmore Reservoir in Calgary. It is one of Canada's largest, and a steam train and historic buildings bring the settler era back to life.
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Maligne Lake
A lake in Jasper National Park famed for its azure water, the surrounding peaks and three visible glaciers. Boat trips cross it to Spirit Island, the most photographed spot in the park.
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Spirit Island
A tiny tied island in Maligne Lake, in Jasper National Park. It is the destination of boat trips across the lake, and the view of it with the mountains behind is one many people link with the Canadian Rockies.
Collecting in Alberta
What are the best places to visit in Alberta?
LOQAH lists 18 places in Alberta. The best known include Banff National Park, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Jasper National Park and Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Alberta?
18, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Alberta?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Alberta before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Alberta and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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