Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
$9, $5 youth, free under 7 years
9am - 6 pm (May 15 â Sep 14), 10am â 5pm (Sep 15 - May 14), closed on Christmas Eve and Day, New Year's Day, and Easter Sunday
From the major intersection of Highways 2 and 3, go about 1km north on Highway 2, turn left (west) onto Highway 785 West, follow signs for about 15km
This UNESCO World Heritage Site has been in use for 5,500 years as a place where the aboriginal people of the plains killed buffalo by stampeding them over a cliff. An interpretive centre built into a cliff has exhibits on the buffalo hunt.
The Fort Museum of the North West Mounted Police
219 - 25th Street
553-4703
$7.50, youth $5.50, child $4.50; less in shoulder season
Shoulder (May 1 - May 18, Sep 4 - Thanksgiving Weekend): Wed-Sun 10am - 4pm; Spring (May 19 - Jun 30): Daily 9am - 5pm; Summer (July 1 - Labor Day): Daily 9am - 6pm; Winter (after Thanksgiving Weekend - April 30): by appointment only
Commemorates the role of the North West later Royal Mounted Police in bringing English authority to the Canadian Plains during the 19th century. Interpretive exhibits, museum displays. Demonstration of horseback riding four times daily during the summer.