Crowsnest Pass Sightseeing By Road
• A WorldWeb.com Travel Guide to Sightseeing By Road in Crowsnest Pass, Alberta.
From the flowing grasslands of Medicine Hat to the rugged Rocky Mountains of Crowsnest Pass, southern Alberta’s Highway 3 offers a less crowded, scenic, and easy-driving route for travelling across Western Canada.
Participants meet at the Frank Slide Interpretive Centre for this walking and bus tour of the town of Hillcrest, where, in 1914, 189 men were killed when a spontaneous gas explosion occured, triggering several successive blasts that left only 19 survivors above ground. The tour explores the townsite of Hillcrest and the mass gravesite for the victims, where a monument has been erected in memorium of the tragedy.




