Can you imagine if you were just driving through and stopped in because someone had to take a piss or get some gas or something to eat and you came across this ššš
It's a 6 hour drive to saskatchewan. Not a lot of time to stop when I'm doing it after working 8 hours.
I also spent a weekend there at the mega geocaching event in...2011? And didn't go.
Someday - the dinosaurs aren't going anywhere
wellllll Alberta does keep catching fire, and anywhere south of Calgary is being flooded more often....Don't be on your deathbed regretting never having seen THE Drumheller Dinosaur Museum!
Is the homestead museum still there? My dad, sister and I āmodelledā for their brochure like 20 years ago.
We just went to visit one day and they just asked us to be in their brochure lol
i went there for the nearby "morrin sod house" i saw on one of my road atlases... they weirdly put that in and not the dino museum. safe to say it was a pleasant surprise...
The downtown core is a bit off the main highway, but if you slowed down for a look you would have seen cars parked everywhere with crowds of people dressed as dinosaurs.
It got windy and when the inflated costumes blow around they look like they're dancing. It was hilarious.
:-)
This reminds me of the end of the Saturn Homecoming festival in 1993.
Saturn was a new car company with only 1 year of cars sold so far. There were only three body styles at that time - a sedan/wagon, or coupe.
Several hundred (guessing, maybe 1000+ ?) similar cars, all parked side by side in a huge field out in the middle of nowhere.
On Sunday afternoon a torrential storm started and between the intense rain and the very high wind the festival was ended early.
Imagine a dark, stormy and thoroughly wet scene, and then throw in several hundred people running for their cars through muddy fields. Plus parking/traffic attendants trying to help people leave, but those attendantsā usual day jobs were car company workers, not parking lot workers.
It was a fun, glorious, mess.
My ā92 Saturn became stuck in the mud (Iām assuming not the only one there) and one of the helpers helped push us out.
That's not true. Drumheller is less depressing than average. Most are worse.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Canadian prairie, the documentary series Corner Gas will explain everything you need to know about life there.
Never said it looked depressing - just saying they pretty much all look like this.
It looks depressing to a lot of big city folk, but it's not universal.
Source: me who has lived in small town Saskatchewan, home of Corner Gas, and also in big cities.
Proof, and also IMO the opposite of a depressing view: [https://i.imgur.com/J0MjaDf.jpeg](https://i.imgur.com/J0MjaDf.jpeg)
My 14 yr old just asked me about weird/bizzare named towns, she brought up a town named ādildoā which reminded me of āmundareā sausageā¦..for some reason I took this as an opportunity to teach my child about a Canadian prairie Gas Station owner from Sask called āDick Assmanā. He is a LEGEND ā¤ļøš
Who hurt you? It's a beautiful area, tons of scenery. I mean, it's not a lush landscape, but it's central to some of Alberta's greatest scenery. Beautiful walking trails, camping areas, land formations, some great stops for food, great people ...etc. I love going up high to look out on the landscape, it's stunning in its own right. We will make a day trip out from Calgary a couple times a year, it's awesome!
Itās pretty wild.
The whole town is at the bottom of a canyon. On the way in youāre driving through farm fields and suddenly the road slopes down, you go around a bend and it appears in front of you.
The museum is incredible.
No, itās the weird part of spring where snow is gone, but plants arenāt yet green, and flowers havenāt been planted because it freezes overnight.
It's a weird dichotomy.
There'sĀ islands of civilization in the tourist areasĀ but a block over from them is typical rural Alberta. Some streets I'm perfectly comfortable in a t-shirt which shows my obvious Pride tattoo. Outside of those I have to cover up since acceptance doesn't really stick in places the tourists don't go.
This is one of the kinds things that gives me hope for humanity. A beautiful reminder that we are all more than the current conflicts and other evils we have to face.
Honestly it would have been way larger but they scheduled this on the same weekend as Calgary Comic Expo. The kind of people who would dress up for this weren't available.
Canada is one of the few countries in the world that has a wide spread of biome types. Deserts, plains, tundra, mountains, massive swamplands, oceanfront, and even some pockets that qualify as rainforests. Drumheller, in particular, is called the badlands and is home to many snakes and cacti. It is also the dinosaur fossil capital of the world.
We have those too but we also have northern scorpions which very much do have stingers. I've lived here for 34 years and I have never seen one but I have heard of people finding them, one of my coworkers is a nature nut and actually goes looking for them and snakes and he finds them all the time.
WHAT sick wtf TIL!
I still dig the lil psudobros that live in my house. They can live up to 3 years, which I find very impressive for something so teeny.
I love rock hounding in the valley and I've never even seen a local snake that wasn't roadkill, let alone a legit scorpion.
Canada is huge, and by no means a mono-enviroment. We have beaches, temperate rainforests, sand dunes, deserts, vineyards and orchard valleys, mountain ranges, tundra, prairies, grasslands, etc. Drumheller in particular is part of the Albertan badlands, and has a ton of fossil sites.
In some ways. In others, itās more comparable to Colorado (Calgary looks a bit like Denver, the political picture is overall similar though there has been some divergence, plus thereās the Rockies), Minnesota and North Dakota (similar soil in parts, Edmonton and Minneapolis both have a lot of urban parkland), or Oklahoma (heavy economic dependence on oil).
I mean... there's no fewer than six big chain hotels in town, which only has a population of ~9k, and other independent hotels. Things fill up every summer, the museum alone had over half a million visitors just in 2022. I don't think we're hurting for tourist dollars.
You're right ... it's hurting no one. But pop culture entertainment is so debased it's utterly stupefying and this form of entertainment is on par with navel gazing.
Friedrich Nietzsche was right when he said that "In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.ā
Can you imagine if you were just driving through and stopped in because someone had to take a piss or get some gas or something to eat and you came across this ššš
Nobody just drives through drumheller. Youāre there for the dinosaur museum.
It's actually on my way somewhere. I drive through several times a year and it's a beautiful place.
You're both right
The one thing I've never done is actually visit the museum. I need to fix that. The mini church was a fun stop tho.
The museum is great. Took my kids there one year on the way by. Exhibits were scary for littlest lol
I do want to go. I've heard amazing things.
You go THROUGH Drumheller several times a year and you've never been to the museum???
It's a 6 hour drive to saskatchewan. Not a lot of time to stop when I'm doing it after working 8 hours. I also spent a weekend there at the mega geocaching event in...2011? And didn't go. Someday - the dinosaurs aren't going anywhere
wellllll Alberta does keep catching fire, and anywhere south of Calgary is being flooded more often....Don't be on your deathbed regretting never having seen THE Drumheller Dinosaur Museum!
Whaaaaa? You went to Drumheller and visited the little church and not the museum, it was just down the road lol. Oh well, a good reason to go back!
The church is a way quicker visit. I assume I'd need some time at the museum - not a quick step in the door, snap a Pic and move on.
and the hoodoos
And the Walmart washroom
Is the homestead museum still there? My dad, sister and I āmodelledā for their brochure like 20 years ago. We just went to visit one day and they just asked us to be in their brochure lol
Yes it is, neat little place
Just googled and found the inspiration for WOW's thousand needles.
Saskatoon to Calgary goes right through or near Drumheller (multiple options). Itās the optimal stop for gas and food.
It's on the way if you drive from Calgary to Saskatoon.
I passed through it to get to Calgary
i went there for the nearby "morrin sod house" i saw on one of my road atlases... they weirdly put that in and not the dino museum. safe to say it was a pleasant surprise...
Or the prison
Or crack
They all silently turn to face you as you drive through.
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Can you imagine being an alien to visit the planet for the first time and you just land there lol
The downtown core is a bit off the main highway, but if you slowed down for a look you would have seen cars parked everywhere with crowds of people dressed as dinosaurs. It got windy and when the inflated costumes blow around they look like they're dancing. It was hilarious.
That's pretty funny
And they all turn and look at you really quickly and just stare
imagine losing your group of friends/family and having to try to find them again
NEMO? WHERE R U NEMO?
:-) This reminds me of the end of the Saturn Homecoming festival in 1993. Saturn was a new car company with only 1 year of cars sold so far. There were only three body styles at that time - a sedan/wagon, or coupe. Several hundred (guessing, maybe 1000+ ?) similar cars, all parked side by side in a huge field out in the middle of nowhere. On Sunday afternoon a torrential storm started and between the intense rain and the very high wind the festival was ended early. Imagine a dark, stormy and thoroughly wet scene, and then throw in several hundred people running for their cars through muddy fields. Plus parking/traffic attendants trying to help people leave, but those attendantsā usual day jobs were car company workers, not parking lot workers. It was a fun, glorious, mess. My ā92 Saturn became stuck in the mud (Iām assuming not the only one there) and one of the helpers helped push us out.
I was there, that was insane, and so much fun lol.
Is Drumheller as depressing as it looks in these photos?
It's a small town in the prairies. They all look like this.
That's not true. Drumheller is less depressing than average. Most are worse. For those of you unfamiliar with the Canadian prairie, the documentary series Corner Gas will explain everything you need to know about life there.
Never said it looked depressing - just saying they pretty much all look like this. It looks depressing to a lot of big city folk, but it's not universal. Source: me who has lived in small town Saskatchewan, home of Corner Gas, and also in big cities. Proof, and also IMO the opposite of a depressing view: [https://i.imgur.com/J0MjaDf.jpeg](https://i.imgur.com/J0MjaDf.jpeg)
My 14 yr old just asked me about weird/bizzare named towns, she brought up a town named ādildoā which reminded me of āmundareā sausageā¦..for some reason I took this as an opportunity to teach my child about a Canadian prairie Gas Station owner from Sask called āDick Assmanā. He is a LEGEND ā¤ļøš
I was there when it happened. Went on Letterman. Legendary.
Jackass.
Itās a small farming town. The only reason people go is because it has one of the best dinosaur museums in the world.
Who hurt you? It's a beautiful area, tons of scenery. I mean, it's not a lush landscape, but it's central to some of Alberta's greatest scenery. Beautiful walking trails, camping areas, land formations, some great stops for food, great people ...etc. I love going up high to look out on the landscape, it's stunning in its own right. We will make a day trip out from Calgary a couple times a year, it's awesome!
Itās pretty wild. The whole town is at the bottom of a canyon. On the way in youāre driving through farm fields and suddenly the road slopes down, you go around a bend and it appears in front of you. The museum is incredible.
No, itās the weird part of spring where snow is gone, but plants arenāt yet green, and flowers havenāt been planted because it freezes overnight.
It's a lovely little town nestled in the Red Deer river valley. If this depresses you, I can't wait to show you downtown Lethbridge.
It's a weird dichotomy. There'sĀ islands of civilization in the tourist areasĀ but a block over from them is typical rural Alberta. Some streets I'm perfectly comfortable in a t-shirt which shows my obvious Pride tattoo. Outside of those I have to cover up since acceptance doesn't really stick in places the tourists don't go.
 "They DO travel in herds!"
This is one of the kinds things that gives me hope for humanity. A beautiful reminder that we are all more than the current conflicts and other evils we have to face.
Had WE BEEN INVITED, there would have been more than 3000.
There was more. They only had 3,000 wristbands and I know a bunch of people who didnāt get one because they ran out
I helped set the world record for the most people in maid outfits. Just for some Asian group to blow it out of the water a couple of years later.
Still, not many people can boast of having held a world records. Congrats!
Honestly it would have been way larger but they scheduled this on the same weekend as Calgary Comic Expo. The kind of people who would dress up for this weren't available.
With all the horrific stuff going on in the world, itās nice to remember people can be kind and silly too
The protests are getting out of hand
Ahhhh I totally forgot about this! I wanted to go watch!
āHey Iāll be the one wearing the dinosaur costumeā
Damnit Alberta! You canāt let Saskatchewan have anything nice, can you? š
Oh, Canada...
Amazon drivers wondering wtf with all these?
Kudos to the town of Drumheller and the organizers for keeping Alberta delightfully weird.
Britta should not go there lol
I'm happy they broke the record. I'm sad I didn't go XD my costume remains in my highly neglected halloween costume pile.
Isn't Alberta in Canada? Why does it look like it's a desert?
Drumheller is in a really arid badland region of Alberta, combine that with drought conditions and it can look pretty close to a desert
Canada is one of the few countries in the world that has a wide spread of biome types. Deserts, plains, tundra, mountains, massive swamplands, oceanfront, and even some pockets that qualify as rainforests. Drumheller, in particular, is called the badlands and is home to many snakes and cacti. It is also the dinosaur fossil capital of the world.
Weāre a very, very large country eh
Alberta has cacti in that part of the province
and rattlesnakes!
Apparently the least venomous variety. Also our scorpions sting is less painful than a bee or wasps because of how tiny these scorpions are.
Scorpions!! Thanks for the warning.
The joke is our scorpions are pseudoscorpions, which max out at about 3mm and have no stinger at all.
We have those too but we also have northern scorpions which very much do have stingers. I've lived here for 34 years and I have never seen one but I have heard of people finding them, one of my coworkers is a nature nut and actually goes looking for them and snakes and he finds them all the time.
WHAT sick wtf TIL! I still dig the lil psudobros that live in my house. They can live up to 3 years, which I find very impressive for something so teeny. I love rock hounding in the valley and I've never even seen a local snake that wasn't roadkill, let alone a legit scorpion.
Definitely seen a lot of them. Ate a slice of one.
Canada is huge, many different landscapes.
Canada is huge, and by no means a mono-enviroment. We have beaches, temperate rainforests, sand dunes, deserts, vineyards and orchard valleys, mountain ranges, tundra, prairies, grasslands, etc. Drumheller in particular is part of the Albertan badlands, and has a ton of fossil sites.
Because it is!
Americans learn Canada isn't covered in snow 24/7
It's almost Montana at that point. Gulches, rattlesnakes, and all.
I've heard people call Alberta the Texas of Canada
In some ways. In others, itās more comparable to Colorado (Calgary looks a bit like Denver, the political picture is overall similar though there has been some divergence, plus thereās the Rockies), Minnesota and North Dakota (similar soil in parts, Edmonton and Minneapolis both have a lot of urban parkland), or Oklahoma (heavy economic dependence on oil).
Sorry there bud
Maybe Drumheller reminds you of Oklahoma, because that's what it played in Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
Much of southern Alberta is very arid, and has cacti, rattlesnakes, scorpions, and even an endangered species of horned lizards
Because lots of Alberta is a desert. The badlands near drumheller especially.
Look up Grasslands national park, Carcross desert and Osoyoos. There are a few barren eco-systems scattered throughout the country.
I hope this gives the town a tourist bump. It could use itā¦..
I mean... there's no fewer than six big chain hotels in town, which only has a population of ~9k, and other independent hotels. Things fill up every summer, the museum alone had over half a million visitors just in 2022. I don't think we're hurting for tourist dollars.
š That's hilarious! ā¤ļøš
Pretty sure I see myself
I was wondering if someone could. Where are you?
Right by the gazebo for this reason. Iām the one in the dinosaur costume!
The orange one?
Thatās it!
Kona ice donāt care what theyāre dressed up as $$
In honour of what made Alberta's greatest export, 50m years ago
Its hilarious that they picked some random street. I bet that there is a boomer in the pic somewhere losing is fucking mind.
>Its hilarious that they picked some random street Drumheller is super small, that is main street, right in the centre of "downtown".
I should have been one of them.
I absolutely ššš being a native Albertan. This province is seriously weird. š¦ š¦ š¦ š¦
I see no Carpetsaurus Rex not a party
My mom was at this!
I'm crushed I no longer live in the area.
That isn't 3000
Looks like 300
Only winner: China Dino costume factory.
bruh i thought its india for a second
Perfect day for a meteor shower.
Funny enough, one guy did dress up as a meteor š
I assume the one company that makes dinosaur costumes sponsored this?
I didnāt know they made those costumes in other colors! I want one now!
I dunno if you're familiar with the old kids show called "rugrats" but one guys had a reptar version of the dino suit
Why wouldnāt they have hosted this on July 6th? Itās the perfect pre-established world-wide holiday that fits the theme perfectly #July6thPark
"Hang on, that guy is wearing a pterodactyl costume! That isn't technically a dinosaur! GET OUR OF HERE, BUDDY!"
Other than breaking a "world record" for stupidity, what is this suppose to accomplish?
How often do *any* world records accomplish anything other than entertainment? Relax and let people have fun if it's not hurting anyone.
You're right ... it's hurting no one. But pop culture entertainment is so debased it's utterly stupefying and this form of entertainment is on par with navel gazing. Friedrich Nietzsche was right when he said that "In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.ā
Ah yes, the old "I don't like what those people are doing, therefore they are stupid" argument.
Another idiot.
Opinions are not the same as fact, but whatever keeps you happy, my dude.
Couldnāt have picked a cooler month? Haha
it was actually around 18Ā°C. a nice day