Life Is A Highway
The Canadian Badlands on the Silver Screen & Music
Videos
"Life Is a Highway" is a song written by Tom Cochrane, from his
1991 album Mad Mad World. The song was Cochrane's most famous song,
as it was a number one hit in his native Canada. The song also
peaked at number six on the Billboard charts in the United States
in 1992. The song has been famously covered by Rascal Flatts for
the Cars soundtrack. The original video for "Life Is a Highway" was
shot in Alberta's Canadian Badlands, near the town of Drumheller
and ghost towns of Dorothy & East Coulee. Many of the shots are
in familiar locations along the Dinosaur Trail, including Tom
playing guitar amid the 'Hoodoos' and the couple running around the
car while it rides the Bleriot Ferry across the Red Deer River. The
photos below are taken from the Life Is a Highway Music Video.
Click on the photos to view caches nearest to these locations. The
grain elevator in front of you at the location of this cache, was
featured in the music video!
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 like no other place on
earth, home to the world's most extensive dinosaur bonebeds,
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 of a complex and diverse
modern society that is still deeply rooted in the spirit of the
frontier.
