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Town in Alberta, Canada
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Milk River is a town of 800 people (2021) in Southern Alberta.
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A key historic site. In 1997, ten fossilized dinosaur eggs, believed to have come from a Hadrosaur, specifically a Hypacrosaurus, were found at Devil's Coulee site.
A group of four historic wood-cribbed grain elevators standing in a row from south to north alongside the Canadian Pacific Railway line.
Take the trail through the many hoodoos (tall, thin spires of rock that protrude from the bottom of an arid drainage basin or badland). A 2-hour guided tour takes you to the protected and enclosed archaeological preserve featuring remarkable petroglyphs. There is also a campground.
A 9-hole course at the south end of town.
Chinese and Canadian.
Pub and restaurant.
While camping at the 8 Flags Campground, you can golf for $1 per hole. Open year round with new (as of 2019) showers and washroom facility. Free Wi-fi.
Kitchenettes and breakfast available.
The town is connected to two highways: Highway 4, which heads south to Interstate 15 and north to Lethbridge, and Highway 501, which heads west to Cardston and east to Saskatchewan.
Read in the guideThere are many roads, so you can drive, but since it is a small town, you can walk around too.
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Lethbridge · Regional · YQL
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