Is driving through Saskatchewan boring?

Stream Good Question, Saskatchewan on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. Saskatchewan has a reputation as a province to skip over. "Everybody had been telling us, 'Oh, just fly over the Prairies, there's nothing there,'" said Mark Richardson, author of Canada's Road: A Journey on the Trans-Canada Highway from St.

John's to Victoria. "You don't make any turns, you just go straight." The Trans-Canada Highway, also known as Highway 1, stretches 7,000 kilometres through all 10 provinces.

It is a popular route for driving between major Canadian cities. Some people seem to think there's nothing to see on the stretch through southern Saskatchewan. "It's pretty flat and nondescript," said Kevin Weedmark, editor and publisher of The World Spectator , Moosomin's local newspaper.

Weedmark asked the CBC podcast Good Question, Saskatchewan , "Why is Highway 1 where it is?" Weedmark said that if the highway were just a few kilometres further north, drivers would see a totally different side of Saskatchewan. "Every time I drive in the region, I think, what if this highway was through the Qu'Appelle Valley, because it runs parallel to the highway all along," said Weedmark. "You'd be driving by Round Lake, Crooked Lake, Fort Qu'Appelle, Pasqua, Lake, Craven, Lumsden.

"How different would people's perception be of Saskatchewan if that was the case?" 16:55 Why is the drive through Saskatchewan so boring? There’s a reason some people skip over Saskatchewan. The drive is flat and man.