Horseshoe Canyon

Horseshoe Canyon is a badlands valley in Alberta, Canada, about 17 km west of Drumheller along Highway 9. Encircled by prairie, it is named for its horseshoe-shaped outline, created by two coulees that drain into Kneehill Creek, a tributary of the Red Deer River. Its two arms stretch about 5 km each from Highway 9 toward Kneehill Creek, reaching the sites of the former mining communities of Dunphy and Gatine. The canyon is important enough geologically to lend its name to the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, and it gained wider notice in 2020 when Nathan Hrushkin found a dinosaur fossil there dating to 69 million years ago.

Alberta · Canada