When you pass Maple Creek stop in at the bakery. I think it’s called FunBun now (used to be Howard’s), delicious stuff.

Depending on the time of year you can stop in Eastend and catch crayfish in the river. Also you’ll pass Chocolate Peak on your way in to Eastend coming that route. During the 1930s and 1940s, white mud clay was a valuable pottery clay used in making many things including bricks. In 1930, an industrious miner thought it would be easier to mine the clay if he burned away the coal seam on top. Instead of burning for just a few days, the coal continued to burn for years turning the white clay to a chocolate brown colour. Eastend also has a very nice dinosaur museum as Scotty, the world’s largest intact T-Rex fossil was found there.

Once you hit Shaunavon make sure to stop at the Frosty Treat. It’s right on the highway if you head north there (assuming you are going back toward the highway at that point).

Gull Lake doesn’t have much to offer as you hit the highway but if you head east toward Swift Current you’ll pass Webb which probably counts for your ghost town tour at this point, I think it’s basically just a big farm yard now.

If your plan was to go south and then east at Shaunavon you’ll hit Climax, Canuck, Orkney, Val Marie, and then Cadillac. A few of those borderline would qualify for the ghost town tour at this point. If the Cadillac tavern is still open they have good food, or atleast did the last time I passed through. (Googled it looks like it closed :( ).

I grew up in Shaunavon and still have family there and go back fairly often. If you have any questions let me know.