2018 The South Country Recreation Area Tourism Guide Rockglen The Beautifully Natural, Naturally Beautiful Heart of the South Country Recreation Area Visit us online at www.rockglentourism.com 2018 ROCKGLEN & DISTRICT TOURISM GUIDE 2018 Events Calendar 2018 Events Calendar MARCH 15 Wood Mountain Lakota Pow Wow, Lakota 23 2019 Borderland Bull Sale Community Centre 21 Mud Bog Races at Rockin Beach APRIL 27-29 14th Annual Gateway Festival 09-12 Borderland Music Workshops, Rockglen Bengough MAY 18 Wood Mountain Regional Park Rodeo AUGUST Ranch Museum opens 2-5 Rockglen High School Reunion for Grade 9-12 students < 1970 18 Grasslands National Park opens TBA Rockglen/Wood Mountain High School 19 Beyond the Big Dipper – Royal Rodeo Astronomical Society, Rock Creek 10-12 Mossbank Old Wives Lake Festival, Trade Campgrounds Show, Tours etc. 25 Rockglen Visitor Center Opens - 15-19 Fossil Fever, East Block, GNP Doughgod Day 18 Badlands Blast, East Block, GNP 25 Rockglen High School Graduation TBA High School Rodeo, Big Beaver 27 Annual Minor Ball Tournament 22 Mossbank Apple Pie Day + Glo ‘N Swim Bengough 31 Rockglen Tourism’s Doughgod Day! JUNE SEPTEMBER 01 South Country Senior Fun Games, 03 Rockglen Visitor Center Closes Rockglen 03 Wood Mountain Regional Park closes 14 Bengough Annual Corn Fest 09 Arts In The Park - w/ Pancake breakfast 23 United Church Fall Supper 09 Ag. Society Home Fair, Bengough TBA McCord Trade Fair 16 4th Annual Rockglen Business 28 Annual Culture Days, Bengough Museum Association Shine & Dine + Variety Foods 29 Rummage Sale, Killdeer Hall 17 EMS Team Roping Event, Bengough 16-17 St. Victor Biker Boogie NOVEMBER 22-23 Gravelbourg Summer Solstice Festival 04 Variety Supper, Killdeer Hall d’Ete 14 Sale of All Sorts, Rockglen 30 Mossbank Show & Shine DECEMBER JULY 01 Rockglen Festival of Lights & Santa Day Parade 01 Canada Day Birthday Party at the Rockglen Visitor Center 01 Assiniboia Demo Derby 01 Mossbank Canada Day, Baseball, Tours & Blacksmithing Demo 01 Gathering of Wood Mountain Wagon Train at Rockglen 6-9 Wood Mountain 129th Stampede 11 The Great Canopus Pig Roast 2 ROCKGLEN & DISTRICT TOURISM GUIDE The South Country Recreation Area 2018 ROCKGLEN & DISTRICT TOURISM GUIDE The Heartland Heritage Highway Having trouble deciding whatever the name, from people as they discuss there is a modern bathroom what to do for holidays the earliest times it was their every-day ranch in the nearby hall. The this year? If traveling in used because of its of experiences. various attractions are run heavy traffic over endless beautiful scenery, bountiful As you drive eastward, the by volunteers. miles of flatland isn’t too game and shelter. short side trip to McCord is One of the historic markers attractive, experience a If you’re coming from the well worth your time. The that mark the NWMP Trail relaxing holiday on a road west, turn right off of the village lies just south of that ran between Wood less travelled. Experience Trans- Canada Highway at Highway #18 and a couple Mountain and Fort Walsh seeing eons of geological Swift Current onto Highway of kilometers north of the to the west can be seen history unfold in front of #4 south and begin your historic Fort Walsh – Wood beside the R.M gravel road your eyes, explore dinosaur Heritage Highway tour on Mountain, or NWMP Trail. just south of McCord. The digs and see some of the Highway #18. The Museum is a ‘must see’ Trail was actually part of most unusual and beautiful Your first stop should be attraction with a superb the Old Traders Road that The South Country Because of their Mounted Police have scenery in Saskatchewan. Tourism’s Visitor Centre collection of memorabilia. was the main trail for First Recreation Area 900 meter elevation, been found and below It’swill what point we youoffer on a in the attractive village of With commendable Nation and Metis hunters leisurely drive across Val Marie. Take their tour foresight, the village has set long before it was used by includes the the Wood Mountain marked, sites of old to someSaskatchewan of the onlocal Highway of the West Block of the up their Museum in what is the N.W. Mounted Police picturesque Wood Uplands were spared Aboriginal camps attractions.#18, TheBe sureHeartland Grasslands National Park. likely the best-preserved and the early settlers. Heritage Highway. You’ll be impressed by 1928 CPR Railway Station in After traveling eastward Mountain Uplands, from the grinding can still be seen and to stop Thewhen Heartland you seeHeritage the buffalo, black tailed the Province, complete with through pleasant farming from the East Block devastation caused buffalo jumps, rub one asHighway they iswill the be most prairie dogs and other a caboose and hand car, country and through southern highway across wild animals living in the bridge timber platform and Glentworth, you’ll soon of the Grasslands elsewhere by the stones and pemican markingthe Province andthe parallels Park and be captivated by an old X railway crossing pass the Village of Wood National Park and kilometer-high ice pots are part of the attractionsa historic thatpioneer are trail that its rugged badlands and sign. Each room is Mountain and enter the over the years has been endless grasslands. furnished much as it would Wood Mountain Uplands Killdeer Badlands on packs of the last treasures waiting to describedcalled ‘The on Old theTrader’s On down the road around have been in earlier days at the old Wood Mountain the west to the Big Glacial Age so they be viewed by those ʻTouringRoad” Rockglenor “The Boundaryʼ Mankota lies cowboy and two genuine original Regional Park. Commission Road” or the country -- the real one, not CPR privies are located History lives at Wood Muddy Valley and are a treasure who appreciate their page. “NWMP Trail,” depending the rhinestone one -- where west of the station building, Mountain. It was a trading Badlands on the trove of fossils. Aboriginal heritage. Enjoywho the was world using that it. But, you can visit with real ranch ‘though for visitors use post as early as 1845, a east, along with their The hills were the Of course our farms was. The Aboriginal adjacent attractions. southern shore of the and ranches have People, Metis and It is best accessed vast meltwater lake modernized but pioneers made their by Highway # 18, the that covered much of remnants of the old own trails. So take Heartland Heritage our province to the days still remain in Highway that is north,so they such places as the found by turning frequently unveil Rodeo Ranch south from any secrets from the Museum at Old highway in the ancient past. Wood Mountain to Province. Youʼll find it Petrified wood, tell the history of the continually fossils of extinct passing parade. impresses you with plants and animals You can be a part its remarkably from antiquity are still of it all at Grasslands beautiful vistas that readily discovered, National Park or one unfold unexpectedly lying near where of the Rodeos, Trail before your eyes as they fell millions of Rides and Wagon the back roads and you crest the next hill years ago. Trains that take take your time. After or descend into its The trails of the place every summer. all, it is a vacation! 3 verdant valleys. Metis and N.W. The signs shown 2018 ROCKGLEN & DISTRICT TOURISM GUIDE The Heartland Heritage Highway (Continued) supply depot for the Border Park. guided tour of the Effie such historic outlaws as Commission party, the first The Park is worth a visit Mattson Nature Walk and Sitting Bull, Butch Cassidy, building purchased by the at any time but if you rent Archeological Centre Dutch Henry and Sam Kelly. NWMP on their long trek a Cabin or even a tipi and with its locally discovered The rugged landscape west and the command post spend a night camped out Miocene fossils. Enjoy served as the starting adjacent to Sitting Bull’s in the Killdeer Badlands, the small-town ambiance, point for the Outlaw Trail main encampment during you’ll be amazed. As you the Art Galleries, eating from Canada to Mexico, so the stay of the Lakota in gaze up at more stars than establishments and other the real stories of the area Canada, with both Walsh you ever thought existed, businesses, then hike the are both interesting and and Sitting Bull spending listening to the coyotes and rugged Burning Hills and unpredictable. considerable time there. In knowing there are a very Yost Wildlife Hike. You’ll You shouldn’t leave 1885 it was a major NWMP few people within miles want to take photos of the Highway #18 before Post during the North West of you, you will feel at one beautiful views they present stopping at Big Beaver Rebellion, keeping Metis with the universe and be to prove to doubters that to visit Aust’s ‘50’s style from the U.S.A. from coming better able to understand Saskatchewan really isn’t Department store that’s north to join the Rebellion. it’s significance to Canada’s all flat! Best of all, if you are been featured on CBC It is also the site of the aboriginals. here on July 1st you can join television, Maclean’s oldest continuous Rodeo in Then it’s on east to the Wood Mountain Wagon Magazine and the Western Canada. Rockglen, the Heart of the Train and experience a Producer. Their well- You can explore our South Country Recreation week of true ‘old west’ living. deserved motto is “If we history at the Rodeo Ranch Area. Park your rig at the To complete your South don’t have it, you don’t Museum, turn the kids loose Rockglen Visitor Centre Country Recreation Area need it!” It truly is a blast for a swim in the heated and visit with the helpful visit, stop at Coronach fifty from the past that will bring Olympic size swimming staff about Oliver, the metal km.