One of British Columbia’s best-kept secrets is the amount of dinosaur and prehistoric creature fossils in northern British Columbia. In Tumbler Ridge, an hour off the Alaskan highway, a recently expanded Dinosaur Discovery Gallery contains several new and enhanced palaeontology exhibits including a full-scale re-creation of a 100 million-year-old dinosaur track environment. An interactive theatre provides several presentation options for visitors to view and learn about the pre-history of the Peace Region of British Columbia.
Be sure to take a summer DInosaur Trackway tour to two sites via hiking trails: the Flatbed trackways and the Wolverine tracksite. A unique feature is the Wolverine lantern night tour – nothing like it is offered anywhere else in the world. The low angled lantern light brings out footprints which are hardly visible by day, and the ambience is ethereal, with the Wolverine River rushing by, and dinosaur sounds (or scientists’ best guesses at them) playing in the background.
Tumbler Ridge is also surrounded by some of the most amazing hiking trails in Canada!