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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 > 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.

Information taken from Wikipedia.

andresalvador > A view of the south bank of the Milk River seen here glistening white to the low sunlight.

andresalvador > A view of the hoodoos as I stand at the top of the north bank of the Milk River looking south. The trees at the center borders the Milk River below.

andresalvador > More hoodoos as I walk down to the river.

andresalvador > This view was taken looking east as I stood on the north bank of the Milk River.

andresalvador > The flat area by the Milk River is popular to campers. Well marked trails will guide you up the hoodoos.

andresalvador > A view looking east from the north bank of the Milk River shown on the right hand side.

andresalvador > WRITING-ON-STONE, ALBERTA, CANADA photo

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.

Information taken from Wikipedia.