Horseshoe Canyon . Off Hwy 9, the canyon offers your first vista of the Badlands. Tours run May 15 to Sept 7, daily 9 am - 5 pm. See the Blackfoot tepee donated by the Siksika nation at the Horseshoe Interpretive Centre , located at the tour site, daily 9 am - 5 pm. Horsethief Canyon .
Paths lead to petrified oyster beds.
The area with its many folds and bends proved an ideal place for thieves to hide horses in the early 1900s. Leitch Collieries . The trip west through the Crowsnest Pass along Hwy 3 takes you to the Leitch Collieries site. The mine opened in 1907 and was the only Canadian-owned mine in the Pass. Chaotic coal prices forced it to close in 1915.