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Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park is located approximately 100 kilometres south of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada and is about 45 kilometres east of the Milk River Community. The park itself straddles the Milk River. It is one of the largest areas of protected prairie in the Alberta park system and has been nominated by the Government of Canada as a World Heritage Site.

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andresalvador > Writing-on-Stone Park contains the greatest concentration of rock art on the North American Great Plains. This photo was taken at one of the high elevation.

andresalvador > This and the next two photos were taken with stitching them together in mind. I decided against it as the hoodoos will get too small.

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andresalvador > The location where the park now sits was, 85 million years ago, the coastal shelf of a large inland sea. Sand deposited in the Late Cretaceous Period compacted over time and became sandstone. With the melting of the ice sheets at the end of the last Ice Age, water, ice and wind eroded the sandstone to produce the hoodoos and cliffs that are part of the park today.

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andresalvador > The Milk River Valley was inhabited by the Blackfoot Indians thousand of years ago. These natives probably created much of the rock carvings (petroglyphs) and paintings (pictographs). Other native groups such as the Shoshone also travelled through the valley and may have also created some of the art.

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andresalvador > The towering cliffs and hoodoos had a powerful impact on the native visitors, who believed these were the homes of powerful spirits. The shelter of the coulees and the abundance of game and berries made the area that is now the park an excellent location for these nomadic people to stop on their seasonal migrations.

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andresalvador > A view that shows the hoodoos and the Milk River below.

andresalvador > The landscape is so different that I felt I was on a different planet but this is a holy place to the Shosone and Blackfoot Indians.

andresalvador > When the sun was already low on the horizon and the hoodoos are all looking gray, I got that feeling that I was on a different planet. This park is approximately 4400 acres of coulee and prairie habitat, and boasts a diverse variety of birds and animals. Bird species include prairie falcon, great horned owl, short-eared owl, American kestrel, cliff swallow and the introduced ring-necked pheasant and grey partridge.

Information taken from Wikipedia.

Writing-on-Stone Park contains the greatest concentration of rock art on the North American Great Plains. This photo was taken at one of the high elevation.