South - Roche Percee
Natural Attraction, Curiosity / Roadside Attraction, RCMP / Military
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La Roche Percee is on the S slope of the Souris Valley about 0.5 km E of Roche Percee. The Cairn is just W of Roche Percee on old Hwy 39.
Latitude: 49.07457° N,
Longitude: -102.7855° W
Longitude: -102.7855° W
The La Roche Percee Provincial Historic Site features unusual rock formations eroded by wind and water. Once covered with symbolic animal carvings by Indigenous people and later autographs of early European explorers, US Cavalrymen, North West Mounted Police (NWMP) and surveyors. The Short Creek Cairn commemorates the Short Creek Camp of the NWMP during the westward march of 1874. No services.
South - Roche Percee