Proceed North on highway #2 for approximatly 25 kilometers (15 minutes ) and then turn right (east) onto highway #72. Travel east for about 18 minutes (31.5km) and you will enter the small town of Beiseker. Keep going east and the highway becomes #9 east. Follow #9 for about 37 minutes (62km) and you will reach Drumheller.
Just before Drumheller the highway will drop down from the prairies and
twist and turn through an amazing array of geographic formations with distinctive
layers of sedimentary rocks. You will travel about 2 kilometers within
these unique formations and finally enter the Town of Drumheller.
If you require accommodation at the HOO-DOO MOTEL then drive a bit further and just before the set of lights turn left into the motel parking lot. The motel is beside Boston Pizza and across the street is A&W Restaurant. Also, Country Style Donuts and MacDonalds are near the motel.
POINTS OF INTERESTS ON HIGHWAY #72 EAST
7km - Bluerange oil pump. This region contains rolling terrain, which is ideal
for trapping oil and gas. (anticline formations - domes)
11km - Major powerline which supplies southern Alberta. Nearby is the
Fairview Hutterite Colony. The Hutterites are a farming community
and produce agricultural crops such as wheat and canola. They also have
specialty crops like potatoes, which require constant irrigation.
They also raise chickens and of course eggs. The hutterites follow
a sharing system, where everyone is considered equal. They all have
job responsibilities, which keeps the community functioning.
22km - Beiseker Colony
25km - DBC gravel pit - glacial river deposits used in road construction.
29km - Pipeline crossing underground, which was recently completed by
Marine Pipeline (Dec.98). This gas pipeline supplies gas to southern
Alberta and United States.
32km - TOWN OF BEISEKER - Is a farming community. They have an elementary
school, RCMP, campground and old train station.
Also, a large Cargill grainery is on the edge of
town.
BEISEKER TO DRUMHELLER INTEREST POINTS
3km - Beisker airport
18km - Communication microwave tower.
26km - Carbon Corner restaurant - gas, home cooked meals and crafts. A great
place to take a break before driving further. (the drive involves more turns
and hills.)
36km - Thats Crafty (tea & crafts)
38km - Rosebud turnoff #840south - Dinner Theatre.
47km - Horseshoe Canyon - small canyon with unique layers of rock & interesting
formations.
55km - Dalum turnoff (community with dutch origins)
60km - turnoff to Federal Penitentiary and Stampede Grounds
62km - Drumheller
63km - Hoo-Doo Motel
MAP OF DRUMHELLER
HOO-DOO FORMATIONS
These layered rock formations look like pillars with a large capstone
on top (composed of a hard sanstone). The sandstone cap protects the
softer sedimentary rocks below from eroding away. If the capstone were
to fall off or was pushed off (by man) then the HooDoo would rapidly
erode and would be gone forever.
