City of Brooks
A Community of the Canadian Badlands
The City of Brooks is a proud member of the Canadian Badlands
Ltd. (this cache may not be located near the community
represented.) Brooks is a city in southeast Alberta, Canada 186
kilometres (116 mi) southeast of Calgary, and 110 kilometres (68
mi) northwest of Medicine Hat. The city is located in the County of
Newell No. 4, along the Trans Canada Highway and the Canadian
Pacific Railway. The area that is now Brooks was originally used as
a bison hunting ground for the Blackfoot and Crow. After Treaty 7
was signed in 1877, homesteaders moved into the area to begin
farming. Before 1904, the area still did not have a name. Through a
Canada Post sponsored contest, the area was named after Noel Edgell
Brooks, a Canadian Pacific Railway Divisional Engineer from
Calgary. In 2010, Brooks celebrated its 100th year as a
municipality since originally incorporating as a village on July
14, 1910.
There are three provincial parks in the area: Dinosaur
Provincial Park, a World Heritage Site, to the northeast,
Tillebrook Provincial Park to the east and Kinbrook Island
Provincial Park to the south. In addition, there are several other
recreational sites in the area including the Rolling Hills
Reservoir, Crawling Valley Reservoir, and Emerson Bridge.
The Brooks Aqueduct south-east of Brooks was built to transport
irrigation water across the Eastern Irrigation District. It spans
across a 3.2 km valley, about 20m above the ground.
This cache is part of the Legacy Trail produced by the Canadian
Badlands Geocaching Association for the Best of the Bad Mega
Event.
The Legacy Trail
The Legacy Trail is a collection of geocaches that circles its
way over 100 miles on country roads traversing some of the most
scenic and spectacular landscape in this part of the Canadian
Badlands. A large number of caches in a variety of types, sizes and
difficulty are placed on the Trail. Every town, village and hamlet
in the Canadian Badlands has its own cache. Some caches were named
after local historic events and people, as well as celebrities who
grew up in this area. Some caches were sponsored by geocachers who
attended the Best of the Bad Mega Event. The Legacy Trail was
produced by the Canadian Badlands Geocaching Association for the
Best of the Bad Mega Event.
The Canadian Badlands
The Canadian Badlands in Alberta are home to the world's most
extensive dinosaur bone beds, badlands and hoodoos, and a
world-class museum that shelters a 75 million-year-old legacy. The
region is rich in culturally and historically significant sites
that tell the story of the First Nations people and early settlers,
and a complex and diverse modern society that is still deeply
rooted in the spirit of the frontier.
