Experience Dinosaur Provincial Park

It was way back in 1955 that the Steveville Dinosaur Provincial Park, as it was called then, was created. The nearby town Steveville, now a ghost town, was named after Steve Hall, a local homesteader.

The world took note, across 24 years that is. Forty years ago this year, in 1979, the area was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site for its diversity in plant and animal life and for its paleontological value.

Photo Courtesy of Christine Newman

The Park, covering over 73 square kilometers, was inscribed within UNESCO under the Natural category and is also considered a National Monument in Alberta.

Historically, many of the fossils discovered in the park ultimately ended up in museums and personal collections around the world. That ended in 1985, and now all the ‘finds’ in Dinosaur Provincial Park are studied at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology.