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gut-wrenching views, the badlands of the Frenchman River Valley are so vastly different from the familiar flatness.
One of the most-loved destinations in the entire province, Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park (IPP) (Ecopoint 35) and its forested hills form an unforgettable counterpoint to the plains. En route, Eastend (Ecopoint 33) offers a literary and paleontological stop, the childhood home of Wallace Stegner and also of Scotty, the skeletal remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex found not far away in this valley. Old Man On His Back (Ecopoint 34) is a new destination in the area, a flagship project of the Nature Conservancy of Canada. Like Grasslands National Park, services are very few, but the landscape stunning.
(A shorter trip to Cypress Hills IPP than the one described below can be taken via Maple Creek and Highway 21 south.)
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