The Dinosaur Trail is a 48 km excursion. Drive northwest and north out of Drumheller on Highway 838. Pass the Royal Tyrrell Museum and Horsethief Canyon. Highway 838 then turns west, and crosses the river at Bleriot Ferry. Ask the Visitor Information Center about the ferry's hours. Go a bit further west, then south on Highway 837, which follows the west bank of the river back to just south of Drumheller.
The Hoodoo Trail is a drive along Highway 10 through Rossdale, Cambria and to East Coulee. On the way you pass the Willow Creek Hoodoos interpretive trail see Cambria, 16km southeast of Drumheller. In East Coulee, visit the Atlas Coal Mine (http://www.atlascoalmine....), a National Historic Site featuring Canada's last wooden tipple structure for emptying coal out of train cars.
Horsethief Canyon
Northwest of town on North Dinosaur Trail / Highway 838, past the Royal Tyrell Museum.Horseshoe Canyon
Beautiful badlands geology. On Highway 9 southeast of Drumheller, some 40km distant. Good hiking, if the rain hasn't made the rocks too slippery. Believed by some to be haunted.Rosebud Theatre
(http://www.rosebudtheatre.com/), Rosebud, 35km southwest. Drive south on Highway 9. After it turns west, drive 16km more to get to the Rosebud crossing.Dinosaur Provincial Park
near Brooks, 177km to the southeast, is on the UNESCO World Heritage List and has fossil exhibits that complement the Royal Tyrrell Museum here. But allow at least three days to see them both. The drive takes about 2 hours 15 minutes by car. Take highway 56 southeast and south for 73km to Highway 1, the Trans-Canada Highway. Go 56.1km east to Brooks. Exit there, go 6km north on Highway 36, and then east along Highway 54 to the park.