Calgary Leisure

In large part due to its proximity to the Rocky Mountains, Calgary has traditionally been a popular destination for winter sports. Since hosting the 1988 Winter Olympics, the city is now home to a number of major winter sporting facilities such as Canada Olympic Park and the Olympic Oval. This is a city with a diverse love of sports, as evidenced by the facilities for hockey, football, lacrosse, baseball, rodeo, cross-country skiing, ski jumping, downhill skiing, snowboarding and speed skating.

Parks

The city also has a large number of urban parks including Fish Creek Provincial Park, Nose Hill Park, Bowness Park, Edworthy Park, Inglewood Bird Sanctuary, Confederation Park and Prince’s Island Park. Nose Hill Park is the largest municipal park in Canada. Connecting these parks and most of the city’s neighbourhoods is one of the most extensive bike path systems in North America. About 300kms of cycling and jogging paths wind alongside rivers and through the city parks.

Indoor activities

The Canada Olympic Park is an indoor training facility for both athletes and the general public, where you can engage in activities such as luge riding, ziplining, miniature golf, bungeeing, trampolining, wall-climbing and bobsleighing. The Race City Motorsport Park is Canada’s best motor sport facility, featuring a quarter-mile long drag strip, a half-mile high-banked oval and a two-mile road course, and offers everything from grassroots racing to national level competition.