Road Trip # 4: Southeast Corner

Start in Lethbridge, heading south on Highway 4 (Scenic Drive) through farm country to Milk River. You’ll pass the town of Warner, where preserved dinosaur eggs were found. Go left at Milk River, heading east on Highway 501 to the entrance to Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park. Set in the Milk River Valley, the park is banked by hoodoo rock formations, and offers a shady, riverside campground near a Native pictograph site. Continue east on 501 to Highway 41, where you’ll travel part of the Red Coat Trail, an important trailway for the early North West Mounted Police. Go north at 41 to Cypress Hills Provincial Park, then Highway 41 continues north to its junction with the TransCanada. Go west here to Medicine Hat, then turn left and head west at Highway 3 (the Crowsnest Highway) and head back to Lethbridge.

Distances: Lethbridge to Milk River 66 km (41 mi). Milk River to Writing-On-Stone 44 km (27mi). Writing-On-Stone to Cypress Hills 200 km (124 mi). Cypress Hills to Medicine Hat 68 km (42 mi). Medicine Hat to Lethbridge 168 km (104 mi).