TRGG Featured in Globe and Mail (again!)
Why you should visit one of Canada’s UNESCO heritage sites: Click to read the Globe and Mail’s Article
Tumbler Ridge Global Geopark Manager
The Tumbler Ridge Geopark Society (TRGGS) is very pleased to announce the appointment of our newly hired TRGG Manager Sarah Waters. Sarah brings 17 years of experience working as a consulting archaeologist and traditional use specialist. Also a very avid volunteer involved in many volunteer groups (WNMS, TRMF, TRGG) in Tumbler Ridge including her position as manager for…
Ridge Ramble X-Country Race this Saturday
Starts 11am @ Tumbler Ridge Golf Course on the Lost Haven Cabin trails (part of the TR Trail). Entry Fee – $5 per individual or $10 per family – pay on race day Distances – Elementary School – 1.3 km; Junior High – 3 km; High School Girls – 4.7 km; All Others 6 km …
Archaeologists Find Giant Clams and Trace Fossils in Tumbler Ridge Area
Sarah Gamble and Kaitlin Minichiello, archaeologists with Amec Foster Wheeler in Tumbler Ridge, have been conducting the archaeological impact assessment for Boralex’s proposed Redwillow Wind Energy project 50 kilometres southeast of Tumbler Ridge. They look for evidence of past human use of the area, such as prehistoric First Nations sites or historic trapper cabins, not…
UNESCO.ORG Features TR Happy Jumpers
They really love our “Happy Jumpers” at UNESCO. Here Birgit and Sandy are pictured high above the TRGG. Also in the news our Videographer released a showcase of Tumbler Ridge Fall colours today!
Tentfire Canyon
For spectacular canyon scenery, impressive rock folding, anticlines and synclines, substantial exposed bedding planes, coal seams, dinosaur tracks and other intriguing geology, Tentfire Canyon is hard to beat.
Lupin Lake and Courtipat Falls
Chris Tremblay has a lofty ambition: to visit all 3000 of British Columbia’s waterfalls. Naturally, this quest has brought him to the Tumbler Ridge Global Geopark, with its plethora of waterfalls. Not content with visiting the standard set of accessible falls, Chris ventured high into the wilderness of Monkman Provincial Park with his buddy Jarius…
A New Tyrannosaur Footprint Near Tumbler Ridge
There are fourteen tyrannosaur tracks that have been discovered worldwide. No less than nine of these have been found within the Tumbler Ridge Global Geopark, while there are three from Alberta, one from Mongolia, and one from New Mexico. Some of the first to be discovered within the Geopark are of great international significance and…
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Kids learning at the TRMF
Kids digging for fossils at TRMF Kids learning advanced paleontology techniques