Horseshoe Canyon (Alberta)

Horseshoe Canyon is a badland formation surrounded by prairie in Alberta, Canada, about 17 kilometres west of Drumheller along Highway 9. It takes its horseshoe shape from two coulees that curve roughly 5 kilometres each before converging on Kneehill Creek, a tributary of the Red Deer River, exposing layered erosional formations along their slopes. The canyon lends its name to the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, a significant geological unit, and once held the small mining communities of Dunphy and Gatine at the tips of its two arms. In 2020 a twelve-year-old visitor found a dinosaur fossil in the canyon dated to about 69 million years old. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/