Dinosaur Provincial Park
UNESCO World Heritage Site (one of only 15 in Canada)
30 minute drive north of Brooks
Rich with dinosaur fossil beds, this Park is known as one of the most important paleontology sites in the world. The Park protects the terrain of a unique badlands eco-system – a semi-dessert world of eroded formations known as hoodoos. Dinosaur Provincial Park is home to large deposits of cretaceous dinosaur fossils. Features camping, walking paths, fossil displays and guided tours through the hoodoos.
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- There are two additional provincial parks in the County of Newell:
- Kinbrook Island Provincial Park - Web Site
- Tillebrook Provincial Park - Web Site
Brooks Aqueduct
National and Provincial Historic Site
5 minute drive east of Brooks
A 3 km-long inverted siphon mounted on 1,030 concrete columns spanning a valley, the aqueduct was constructed in 1914 by the Canadian Pacific Railway as part of an irrigation scheme to use nearby water to transform 55,000 hectares from semi-arid rangeland into farmland.
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Lake Newell
One of Canada's largest man-made lakes - 45 square miles, maximum depth - 65 feet
10 minutes south of Brooks
Home to housing development, boating (including boat launch), a marina, and three bird sanctuaries.
Bassano Dam
Constructed in 1910 on a bend in the Bow River, this 220 metre structure provides a water source for 18,000 area residents, and distributes water through a maze of canals, drains and 13 internal storage reservoirs stretching 4,800 km - dispersing into 100 agricultural irrigation systems. A popular spot for fishing and picnics.
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EID Historical Park
The EID Historical Park was established in 1976 by a group of residents and farmers who wanted to preserve the history of the settlers who came to this area starting in 1917. The park is situated on 17 acres, on the old CPR right of way. Our "Sleeping Giant", the Scandia Pool Elevator (built in 1927) was the first elevator in Alberta to be declared a historic resource. The attached office still has original paperwork, charts and scale tickets. Nearby are the original Bow Slope Shipping Yards, also a Provincial Historic Resource, where thousands of cattle, sheep, and pigs were weighed and shipped off. A cattle car is still waiting on the tracks.
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