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The Dinosaur Trail is a catch-all circular road route of 51km from Drumheller embracing some of the viewpoints and lesser historic sights of the badlands and the Red Deer Valley area. The comprehensive Visitor's Guide to the Drumheller Valley (free from the Drumheller infocentre) lists thirty separate stopoffs, mostly on the plain above the valley, of which the key ones are: the Little Church (6km west of Drumheller), the "Biggest Little Church in the World" (capacity six); Horsethief Canyon (17.6km west of the museum) and Horseshoe Canyon (19km southwest of the museum on Hwy 9), two spectacular viewpoints of the wildly eroded valley, the latter with good trails to and along the canyon floor; the Hoodoos , slender columns of wind-sculpted sandstone, topped with mushroom-like caps (17km southeast of Drumheller on Hwy 10); the still largely undeveloped Midland Provincial Park , site of the area's first mines and crisscrossed by badland trails, now home to an interpretive centre (daily 9am-6pm; free); and the Atlas Coal Mine (guided tours mid-May to mid-Oct daily 9am-6pm; $4 or $6 for guided tour; tel 822-2220), dominated by the teetering wooden "tipple", once used to sort ore and now a beautiful and rather wistful piece of industrial archeology.
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