GP TOURISM GUIDE BOOK 2017

Wembley is the gateway to the dinosaurs and is the home of the 41,000
square foot, state-of-the art Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum. The
Pipestone Creek area, located south of the Town of Wembley, has received
international attention due to the discovery of the world’s largest
Pachyrhinosaurus (“thick nosed” horned dinosaur) bone bed. The
Pipestone Creek site contains hundreds of dinosaur skeletons, and is one
of the best horned dinosaur bone beds found in North America. The
Dinosaur Museum is a world class museum. The Museum and the Dinosaur
Bone bed are a major tourism destination site for northwestern Alberta
travelers.
According to the Grande Prairie Regional College paleontology program,
it’s a theory that during a migration more than 70 million years ago, a herd
of the thick-nosed, plant-eating pachyrhinos tried to cross a river in a flood.
The animals may have panicked and similar to the mass mortality of a
Quebec caribou herd in the ‘80s, the dinosaurs died in the flood. It’s theorized
the carcasses were washed downriver until they settled in a final location.
Once there, the bones were disarticulated, jumbled up like a puzzle. Bone
bed tours are offered on a regular basis.
• Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum
• Pipestone Creek Bone Bed Tours
• Pipestone Golf Club
• Sunset Lake Park & Campground
• Wembley Skateboard Park
Pipestone Creek Golf Course
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