ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DINOSAUR TRACK SITES IN THE WORLD
Among some of the Grande Cache area’s more interesting wildlife were huge meat-eating dinosaurs, which hunted the muddy shore with strides 3 metres (10 feet) long. Thankfully, these and a variety of other ‘terrible lizards’ are no longer permanent residents of the area. Fortunately, however, they left thousands of footprints behind, embedded high in the mountains in steep sheets of rock. Over a dozen sites contain tracks in a 25-square-kilometre (10-square-mile) area, making it one of the best dinosaur track sites in the world.
NOTE: The area containing the tracks is privately leased and not accessible to the public. However, you can visit the Grande Cache Tourism & Interpretive Centre to experience the “Cache In on Dino Discovery VR Experience,” an innovative virtual reality experience that brings the prehistoric world to life.
Originally uncovered by local coal mining activities, this site was designated a protected Provincial Historical Site by the Province of Alberta in 2006.
A copy can be seen at the Grande Cache Tourism & Interpretive Centre and the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller, AB.
