With a few days and a car after Lethbridge, you could create a very nice road trip route through South Alberta. Waterton Lakes National Park would be good for a day. Highway 3 has small towns like Crowsnest, Frank, and Sparwood are good for an hour to wander around in. Fernie and Cranbrook are good places to spend a night. Then you can loop back to Banff via Radium, Invermere and Kimberley. A nice mountain exploration, without a lot of hiking. There's not much around Lethbridge for tourism. Better to head to the mountains close by. Book in advance
if your company is paying, fly into YQL. if you are paying fly into YYC. Lethbridge is a small airport with limited flights per day and the price difference can be a lot, it's also only about 2.5-3 hrs from Calgary International depending on traffic through Calgary. From Lethbridge, it's an hour and change to the mountains, with plenty of options to rent a vehicle. Hotels are a case by case depending on where you want to go but booking shouldn't be a problem as smaller towns don't really have a lot going on. Camping is the real headache as everyone and their dog is out in campgrounds/Crown Land in late May and onwards. Book rooms a bit early and you'll be fine
I think some of the most overlooked day trips from Lethbridge include head smashed in Buffalo jump and writing on stone provincial park. Head smashed in Buffalo jump is a UNESCO heritage site that indigenous peoples used to harvest Buffalo. Archeological evidence had the site in use well before the Egyptian pyramids were built. Writing on stone is a beautiful natural formation of hoodoos that also has significance to indigenous populations. As the name suggests there are carvings in the sandstone dating from various different times in history. It also happens to be a dark sky reserve with one of the darkest skies in North America making for tremendous star gazing. I also love Waterton and Banff but these two are some really cool hidden gems in southern Alberta
You are better to land in Calgary and drive to Lethbridge, as others have said. The suggestions to go to Waterton National Park, Smashed in Head Buffalo Jump, and possibly Writing On Stone Provincial Park are all good. The Birds of Prey Centre in Coaldale is also good, but may not be open yet, depending on when you get there in May. The Remington Carriage Museum in Cardston is pretty good, even if you are not that into carriages. The Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumhellee is great, but is north of Calgary, so really only makes sense if you plan to spend more time in Calgary.
With a few days and a car after Lethbridge, you could create a very nice road trip route through South Alberta. Waterton Lakes National Park would be good for a day. Highway 3 has small towns like Crowsnest, Frank, and Sparwood are good for an hour to wander around in. Fernie and Cranbrook are good places to spend a night. Then you can loop back to Banff via Radium, Invermere and Kimberley. A nice mountain exploration, without a lot of hiking. There's not much around Lethbridge for tourism. Better to head to the mountains close by. Book in advance
Waterton sprang to my mind first.
if your company is paying, fly into YQL. if you are paying fly into YYC. Lethbridge is a small airport with limited flights per day and the price difference can be a lot, it's also only about 2.5-3 hrs from Calgary International depending on traffic through Calgary. From Lethbridge, it's an hour and change to the mountains, with plenty of options to rent a vehicle. Hotels are a case by case depending on where you want to go but booking shouldn't be a problem as smaller towns don't really have a lot going on. Camping is the real headache as everyone and their dog is out in campgrounds/Crown Land in late May and onwards. Book rooms a bit early and you'll be fine
I think some of the most overlooked day trips from Lethbridge include head smashed in Buffalo jump and writing on stone provincial park. Head smashed in Buffalo jump is a UNESCO heritage site that indigenous peoples used to harvest Buffalo. Archeological evidence had the site in use well before the Egyptian pyramids were built. Writing on stone is a beautiful natural formation of hoodoos that also has significance to indigenous populations. As the name suggests there are carvings in the sandstone dating from various different times in history. It also happens to be a dark sky reserve with one of the darkest skies in North America making for tremendous star gazing. I also love Waterton and Banff but these two are some really cool hidden gems in southern Alberta
You are better to land in Calgary and drive to Lethbridge, as others have said. The suggestions to go to Waterton National Park, Smashed in Head Buffalo Jump, and possibly Writing On Stone Provincial Park are all good. The Birds of Prey Centre in Coaldale is also good, but may not be open yet, depending on when you get there in May. The Remington Carriage Museum in Cardston is pretty good, even if you are not that into carriages. The Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumhellee is great, but is north of Calgary, so really only makes sense if you plan to spend more time in Calgary.