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Do this trip: Bar Diamond Guest Ranch is isolated, so you’ll need to rent a car (and use GPS). The ranch is about 350 kilometres east of Calgary and 90 minutes north of Medicine Hat. Most visitors bunk down in the property’s historic log cabin, which early pioneers built in 1903. I stayed in Billy Martin’s Cabin, hidden among trees next to a creek, built as a tribute to the land’s original homesteader.

Do your research: bardiamondguestranch.ca, travelalberta.com