Pro

Clean air, near Rocky Mtns, great Summers / Falls.
Con

Like Most Places in Canada - Long, Cold Winters
In a nutshell

Fun vibrant & very walkable
48 Reviews If you fly to Calgary for business, try to get in a day early or stay a day later, and give yourself enough time to take the 90 minute drive into Banff in the mountains West of the city of Calgary. Banff is a quant little town surrounded by majestic mountains and great views everywhere. There are a...
25 Reviews We took a ride to the top of the Calgary tower, they have an great observation deck. I like to go up there just before sunset, you can see the city change from night to day, prarie sunsets are amazing, and then watch as the city lights come up. After some time on the observation deck head to the...
37 Reviews Ethical tourists should know the underpinning of the Calgary Stampede is a rodeo which exploits domestic livestock for entertainment and profit. Not unlike bull-fights, tame animals endure needless humiliation, catastrophic injury and death at rodeo events across the province of Alberta through the...
10 Reviews I've never traveled to Wyoming in the US, so this might be familiar to those who have, but I would call this "Gods Country" on the western outskirts of the city of Calgary. The land is flat and the horizon extends for miles until met by the majestic Rocky Mountains in the distance. the clouds and...
12 Reviews Canada Olympic Park provides activies for individuals and families all year long. During the winter it is a small ski hill where the kids can learn to ski and snowboard. There is also a luge/bobsled track. Here you can watch the professionals practice or take a ride yourself on the "Bobsled...
21 Reviews The Calgary Zoo's unique Prehistoric Park is an outdoor re-creation of southern Alberta as it might have appeared millions of years ago when dinosaurs ruled the earth. The park features life-sized dinosaurs in their re-created geographical environment. This exhibit is quite rundown looking and...
13 Reviews Heritage Park is a "historical village", showing how the pioneers lived as they settled in Western Canada. The park is open daily through the summer and on weekends through parts of the spring and fall. In the winter, Heritage Park is only open for special events, such as Halloween and Christmas....
Calgary Chinese Cultural Centre
8 Reviews Calgary’s China, although ranked the 3rd largest in Canada (next to Vancouver and Toronto), is a lot smaller than the top two. However, it is located right in the middle of downtown taking up some of Calgary’s prime downtown real estate. One of the unique features of Calgary’s Chinatown is the...
1 Review and 109 Opinions Bar none- Le Germain is spectacular. I couldn't classify it as boutique becuase it caters to such a...
8 Reviews One of Calgary’s symbols is a White Cowboy Hat. This is the home of the Stampede and of course you'll want to be one of the good guys wearing a white hat rather than wearing a black hat. White Cowboy Hats are often presented to visiting dignitaries and celebrities as a welcoming gift to Calgary. In...
1 Review 1.Canadians in general are very friendly and helpful, if asked for information about locations or history (although in Calgary there is NOT MUCH history left... i mean places, older than 5-10 years)! Anyway, as i got to know... there have been people asking park wardens about getting the water so...
3 Reviews Ethical tourists should know the underpinning of the Calgary Stampede is a rodeo which exploits domestic livestock for entertainment and profit. Not unlike bull-fights, tame animals endure needless humiliation, catastrophic injury and death at rodeo events across the province of Alberta through the...
1 Review It amazes me how often I see tourists get out of their cars to photograph or feed wild animals. Do so if you like. Just remember the incident this year (2001) of a man who put peanut butter on his son's hand and sent him to feed it to the bear so he could get a picture. This is a true story and you...
11 Reviews Ethical tourists should know the underpinning of the Calgary Stampede is a rodeo which exploits domestic livestock for entertainment and profit. Not unlike bull-fights, tame animals endure needless humiliation, catastrophic injury and death at rodeo events across the province of Alberta through the...
1 Review Heritage Park - a theme park in Calgary that gives visitors an authentic look at life in a Canadian town in the early 1900's. First of all...it is really expensive to go for what you get. However if you are interested in the 'little house on the prairie/ anne of green gables' kind of town you may...
5 Reviews In the countryside where our daughter's boyfriend was brought up on his parent's 140-acre horse ranch, we decided on a Sheep River rafting trip where it flows past their back pastures! With two rubber rafts loaded aboard 4WD All Terrain Vehicles, we headed down a steep trail and eventually emerged...
2 Reviews I met Matyas from Szeged in Hungary on Fiday evening July 7th 2006, in Clagary. He had visited the downtown area and braved the Transit system to get to Heritage Park, where I collected him and we drove to some of the view points to see an over view of the action on the Stampede Ground, it being the...
21 Reviews Calgary is also known by other names such as Cow Town - The Stampede City - The Heart of the New West and its most modern one of C-Spot. Her sister cities are Phoenix Arizona 1997 - Taejeon South Korea 1996 - Naucalpon Mexico 1994 - Beijing China 1985 -Jaupur India 1973 and Quebec Canada 1956 - the...
13 Reviews In 1988, Calgary put on a party and invited the world. For a couple of weeks in February1988, the winter Olympians competed and their victories were often celebrated at the Olympic Plaza . These days, it’s the future Olympians that make use of the plaza: young children use the flooded plaza as a...
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It's about time. After all I live here. - In 2007 it was officially announced that the population of Calgary had reached 1,000,000 people. The majority of these people came from somewhere else, especially when you consider that 140 years...
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A: Funny, I can enter from Regina SK to Calgary AB. I put a random November date in and saw two options that day, one took 11 hours and the other a bit less, but for $66...
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It's about time. After all I live here.

In 2007 it was officially announced that the population of Calgary had reached 1,000,000 people. The majority of these people came from somewhere else, especially when you consider that 140 years......
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada is a large, vibrant city located in the Bow River valley at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. The population of Calgary has reached 1 million and it is the largest city in...
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I like traveling because then I really enjoy coming home to Calgary. If I’m in Calgary for several months without a break it trends to get a bit boring. But if I’m out traveling, I really appreciate...
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Flew into Calgary just in time to see the Stampede Parade. Great city with a very western feel - the locals were great with a friendly greeting "Hi Guys - How you doing?" Friendly, relaxed, busling &...
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In July, 2006 my wife and I returned to Alberta for another go-round of Calgary! This time we started our journey in the city, then drove north to Cold Lake for a week before returning for a few days...
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