Banff is a town within Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. It is the larger of the two towns in this national park. It is located in Alberta\’s Rockies along the Trans-Canada Highway, approximately 126 km west of Calgary and 58 km east of Lake Louise. This is a town that truly celebrates its heritage, lives and breathes mountain culture and never takes its backyard for granted. You can walk just about anywhere you want to go. Walking is quick, easy and allows for random adventures down to the river, through the forests, up the mountains. And all of these activities are within a 5 – 10 minute walking distance. Biking around town is popular too. There are several shops to rent bicycles.

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The Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana houses one of the world’s largest collections of North American dinosaur fossils, curated by John R. Jack Horner. Museum at Montana State University is a Smithsonian Affiliate and is recognized as one of the world’s finest research and history museums. Research here is focused on paleohistology; the study of the microscopic structure of fossil specimens, which allows for a deeper exploration into dinosaur growth, physiology and behavior.

Big Mike  a bronze cast of a Tyrannosaurs Rex

Tenontosaurus

Deinonychus attacks Tenontosaurus

Deinonychus attacks Tenontosaurus

Triceratops horridus adult and juvenile

Long-necked elasmosaurid plesiosaur

juvenile to adult Triceratops skulls

Diplodocus leg

acycephalosaurus wyomingensis

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