Looking for the inside scoop on hiking the Rockies, tracking dinosaurs in the badlands or saddling up for the annual Calgary Stampede rodeo?

You’ll want a copy of the new Michelin Green Guide to Alberta and the Rockies in your back pocket.

Just released this spring, the Alberta guide joins other recent Michelin publications covering Canada’s Atlantic provinces, Ontario and British Columbia.

Penned by top Calgary travel writer Susan Mate with contributions from Margaret Lemay and Susan Scott, the slim volume offers a comprehensive guide to the province, including driving tours, nature, history, art, culture and attractions from Fort MacMurray in the north to Waterton Lakes National Park in the south.

Unlike Michelin red guides, which focus on restaurants and hotels, the green guides offer their famous star ratings to sites, attractions and tours.

You’ll learn Alberta’s history, from the great ice ages that sculpted its landscape millions of years ago, leaving exposed badlands and ancient dinosaur beds that are among the most well preserved in the world, to the the province’s cattle-producing and oil-producing roots.

The guide covers all kinds of touring, whether you’re ready to scale a mountain peak, fish for trophy trout or just spend some down time at a serene mountain hot spring or spa.

It’s perfect to carry in the car, whether you’re arriving in Alberta from away, or you’re just hoping for a better “staycation” in your own back yard.

Green guides from the Michelin tire people have been around since 1926 but this is a first for Alberta.

Michelin Alberta and the Rockies

$19.95

www.ViaMichelin.com