Regina stands out like an oasis in the middle of the Canadian prairie desert. The capital city of the province of Saskatchewan has 180,000 of the province’s 968,000 residents. The other major cities on the Canadian prairies include Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, Lethbridge, and Lloydminster have their attractions, but Regina seems unusually forested and green for a prairie town.
If you’ve never been to the prairies of the Great Northwest, it can be described as flat, very flat. Big sky country is a term often coined for the prairies since you can see from horizon to horizon. The tallest things that might block your view are the few grain elevators that store the region’s major agricultural product – grain.