Alberta

Horsethief Canyon

Floor681 m2,234 ft

Depth: 156 m
Rim: 844 m
Length: 23.7 km
Tonight: -1°CPartly cloudy · Wind 32 km/h NW

Horsethief Canyon is up to 156 m deep: the rim reaches 844 m and the floor 681 m, along 23.7 km.

All facts

Floor: 681 m

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Depth

Depth of Horsethief Canyon

Up to 156 m deep (typically 133 m) along the 23.7 km in view.

Rim = the lower side's highest point within 6 km. Centreline follows the river (no mapped valley line).

3D map

Horsethief Canyon 3D map

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Surface

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Topographic map

Horsethief Canyon terrain and contours

10 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 50 mShowing west → east through the centre

Horsethief Canyon elevation profile

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Weather

Horsethief Canyon weather

Today · Fair · -1 / 3°C (30 / 37°F) · Wind 32 km/h NW

Horsethief Canyon forecast for about 844 m.

Today-1°3°–32 km/h NW
Sat-4°4°–17 km/h NW
Sun-3°2°–16 km/h SE
Mon-1°3°–18 km/h SE
Tue-2°4°–9 km/h NW
Wed0°2°4.2 mm11 km/h NE
Thu-1°3°5.1 mm12 km/h SE
Fri-2°-1°0.8 mm13 km/h NW
Sat-5°1°0.4 mm12 km/h S
Sun-2°4°–9 km/h W

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Horsethief Canyon

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Horsethief Canyon, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest parking
0.1 km ESE
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Nearest campsite
Drumheller Lions Campground & Hall Rental
2.5 km SSW · +2 more within 4.8 km
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All mapped places 4

Place	Distance
Parking	0.1 km ESE
Drumheller Lions Campground & Hall RentalCampsite	2.5 km SSW
Bleriot Ferry CampgroundCampsite	3.4 km NNW
Dinosaur Trail KOACampsite	4.8 km SSE

Slope

Share of the 19.2 × 19.2 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 92% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

92.4%

Moderate, 15–30°

6.0%

Steep, 30–45°

1.5%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 1.5% of the 369 km² view
Relief in view: 207 m low point 679 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Cropland 68.9%Grassland 24.4%Bare rock / sparse 2.9%Trees 2.7%Water 0.8%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 9.6 km; 312 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Greasewood264
Longleaf Wormwood158
Plains Pricklypear134
Hoary Tansyaster130
Richardson's Ground Squirrel97
Broom Snakeweed95

Where it sits

Where Horsethief Canyon sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Ghost Lake1,188 m138 km WSW

Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGHorsethief Canyon satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-17.

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GIS & GPS

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Sources

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-17)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Horsethief Canyon

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Nearest parking

Nearest campsite