Please, if you have children or pets with you, don't allow them to scramble over, take, or otherwise disturb this ancient arrangement of rocks. Please respect this sacred site and take nothing but pictures!
"No one really knows how old the massive stone structure on Sundial Hill is, or what it might have meant to the people who laboured to create it, but labour they did. The huge central cairn is composed of hundreds of large rocks. All had to be carried to the site, along with hundreds more smaller stones to form two huge circles enclosing the cairn.
Alberta has the lion’s share of almost every classification of these mysterious circles; a number have been excavated and found to range in age from perhaps 250 to as much as 5,000 years. The edifice at Sundial Hill has been mapped and studied, but never excavated. However the brightly-coloured lichen on the exposed surface of many of the rocks in the central cairn is one indication of considerable age. Is it this antiquity, or perhaps the mystery that surrounds these structures that makes a visit to Sundial Hill such a mystical experience? Like Britain’s standing stones, their essence is an enigma. And if we listen hard, it almost seems we can hear whispers of a mysterious secret." --from Barbara Huck and Doug Whiteway’s In Search of Ancient Alberta