Drumheller, Canada Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Whatever way you travel, you'll pass through DRUMHELLER , a downbeat town in an extraordinary setting roughly ninety-minutes' drive northeast of Calgary. As you approach it from the west, the town is hidden until you come to a virulent-red water tower and the road suddenly drops into a dark, hidden canyon. The otherworldliness of the gloomy, blasted landscape is spookily heightened by its contrast to the vivid colours of the earlier wheat and grasslands. Drumheller sits at the base of the canyon, surrounded by the detritus and spoil heaps of its mining past – the Red Deer River having exposed not … more »