[twitter]Banff is just a quick 75 minute drive from the west side of Calgary and it’s an easy escape for a half day visit with the kids. When the chinooks are blowing in town and…
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Calgary Kid Friendly Hikes – Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park
[twitter]Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park [map] Trail Lengths: 2.3 km – 25 km Elevation Gain: 120m Age Appropriate: Hiking 4+, Cycling 6+ Opened August 9, 2011, Glenbow Ranch is Alberta’s newest Provincial Park. The land was…
Calgary Kid Friendly Hikes – Big Hill Springs Provincial Park
[twitter]Big Hill Springs Provincial Park [map] Trail Length: 2.3 km / approx 1 hour Elevation Gain: 20m Age Appropriate: 2+ Big Hill Springs is located between parkland and foothills natural regions; the main attraction is…
Calgary Daytrips: The Big Rock In Okotoks
[twitter]When you have young children, taking a quick daytrip is a great way to spend half a day exploring. You’re on the road for less than an hour, you do some walking around, you stop…
What Tourists Do At Lake Louise
Tourists here are just like tourists there. They Euros probably laugh at us trying to hold up the tower at Pisa, so laugh at them jumping at Lake Louise.
Calgary Daytrips: Columbia Icefields
At about 3 1/2 hours non-stop from Calgary, few would call a visit to the Columbia Icefields a daytrip from Calgary, (and it wasn’t the intention for us, but when you bring the wrong tent…
Camping With Kids #3: Camping at Crimson Lake Provinical Park
Camping at Crimson Lake Provincial Park in Alberta is a great place for families. There’s a shallow lake for swimming, or boating.
Camping With Kids #2: Camping At Chain Lakes Provincial Park
WIth a restaurant, fishing area, playground, and more, camping at Chain Lakes Provincial Park is a quick trip from Calgary
Calgary Escapes: A Weekend in Canmore
If you want an escape from Calgary and you’re looking for something to do for the weekend in Canmore, here are some ideas.
West Edmonton Mall: The Tacky Las Vegas of the North
[twitter]When it was built in 1981, Edmonton’s West Edmonton Mall was the largest mall in the world, a blazing beacon of the excess of the 80s. So popular was this mecca of merchandise, that travel…
Mountain Biking Hiking In K Country
[twitter]When Calgarians need to escape, they go to K Country. It’s the perfect place to go for a wander with little kids, have a picnic, camp, quad, hike or ride. There are a couple of…
Calgary Daytrips: A Morning in K-Country
[twitter]When it comes to lacing up the shoes and heading for a bit of outdoorsy activities, people in Calgary make a bee line for K-Country. Kananaskis Country is more than 4 200 square kilometers of…
Calgary Daytrips: Nanton
[twitter]Take your hometown and draw a 175 kilometre circle around it. That’s the perfect distance for a day trip. 90 minutes-ish there, some lingering and then 90 minutes-ish home. You leave late morning, you’re back…
Calgary Daytrips: Drumheller, Hoodoos and Dinosaurs
Drumheller is only a 90 minute to 2 hour drive north east of Calgary, but we took our father/son time with the day and took the long scenic route home. We left just before 9a…
U-Pick Strawberry Season In The Fraser Valley
[twitter]Krause Berry Farms opened up officially for the season today, and for $1.50 a pound you can fill your face and freezer with the best, ripest, freshest strawberries you can find in the world. The…