State Places Challenge -- A to Z

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Land of the Living Skies

Andy Jamault Nature Trail: Arborfield, with a working paleontological dig at the end
Batoche National Historic Site: and Batoche Ghost Town
Canoeing: Thousands of square miles of wilderness, lakes and rivers
Duck Mountain Provincial Park: a self-described "island of green in a sea of grain"
Echo Valley Provincial Park: Named for the legend of an Indian brave who hears his love call to him the night she died
Fort Walsh National Historic Site: One of the original outposts of the North West Mounted Police
Grasslands National Park: Sitting Bull's refuge after the battle of the Little Bighorn
Heritage Farm & Village: North Battleford, recreating prairie life of the 1920s
Indian Head Museum: Indian Head, Tons of eclectic stuff, including a complete village garage from the '30s
Jasper Cultural & Historical Centre: Maple Creek, the Old West Canadian style
Katepwa Point Provincial Park: Regina's playground
Little Lake Manitou: The Lake of the Healing Waters
Moose Jaw: Besides having one of the coolest city names, it was a Capone hideout in the '20s
Nipawin Living Forestry Museum: Representative buildings and machinery, visit on Canada Day (July 1) if you can
Outlook & District Regional Park: Saskatchewan's 2005 Park of the Year
Prince Albert National Park: Boreal forest, free ranging buffalo, pelicans' summer home, and tundra
Qu'Appelle Valley: Saskatchewan's playground
RCMP Sunset Retreat: Regina, Akin to the Changing of the Guard, where the Mounties got started
Saskatchewan Science Centre: Regina, Family oriented and hands-on
T.rex Discovery Centre: Eastend, Built into and around the site of a world famous dino dig
Ukrainian Museum of Canada: Saskatoon, the story of their old and new homelands
Verigin: National Doukhobor Heritage site
Western Development Museum: Yorkton, The story of the settling of western Canada
X-Country Ski Trails: There are nearly 40 throughout the province
Yellowhead Highway: The Trans Canada to the great northwest
Zealandia: "Just" another small town on the prairie

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