Guidebook for Calgary
Essentials
Modern and clean store layout, excellent customer service, good selection of fresh produce including Gluten-free items and Organic fresh produce
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Save-On-Foods
19489 Seton Crescent SEModern and clean store layout, excellent customer service, good selection of fresh produce including Gluten-free items and Organic fresh produce
Food Scene
High-end, cosmopolitan dining in a relaxed lake community. Great food, unique modern decor, friendly staff, memorable formal dining experience.
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Starbelly Open Kitchen & Lounge
19489 Seton Crescent SEHigh-end, cosmopolitan dining in a relaxed lake community. Great food, unique modern decor, friendly staff, memorable formal dining experience.
Good Earth Coffeehouse
356 Cranston Rd SEGreat coffee and bakery
Familiar comfort food in a family-friendly setting
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Ricky's All Day Grill - Seton
19489 Seton Crescent SEFamiliar comfort food in a family-friendly setting
Papa John's Pizza
19489 Seton Crescent SEPizza and Italian dishes
Edo Japan
19489 Seton Crescent SEJapanese seafood meets fastfood
World's largest coffee chain where we like to hang out whether at home or traveling. This branch is located inside Save-On Foods.
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Starbucks
19489 Seton Crescent SEWorld's largest coffee chain where we like to hang out whether at home or traveling. This branch is located inside Save-On Foods.
Drinks & Nightlife
Modern English pub serving great food, music--an excellent place to hang out with friends after work, hockey games or simply to unwind. Well-known for its unique bathroom design ala the Red English phone booth.
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The Tommyfield Gastro Pub
19489 Seton Crescent SEModern English pub serving great food, music--an excellent place to hang out with friends after work, hockey games or simply to unwind. Well-known for its unique bathroom design ala the Red English phone booth.
Everything Else
Shoppers Drug Mart
7 Mahogany Plaza SECanada Post Outlet, personal care products
New, clean equipment for basic workout if interested only in treadmill or a few weights. For a more complete body workout, the YMCA inside the South Health Campus offers better value for money.
Orangetheory Fitness
19489 Seton Crescent SENew, clean equipment for basic workout if interested only in treadmill or a few weights. For a more complete body workout, the YMCA inside the South Health Campus offers better value for money.
Petro-Canada & Car Wash
19489 Seton Crescent SEGasoline services plus touchless car wash
BMO Bank of Montreal
4 High St SECash withdrawals
World class medical services, clean amenities, and friendly staff
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South Health Campus - Hospital
4448 Front St SEWorld class medical services, clean amenities, and friendly staff
Shopping
Highlander Wine & Spirits Seton
Good selection of wines and spirits that is closeby
Costco Wholesale
104 Southbank BlvdShop leisurely at one of North America's best-run members-only discount shops
Parks & Nature
Kayak on the lake, sunbath on the white sand beach, play tennis/basketball, or cool-down and play with kids at the water fountain during summer or skate during the winter.
Auburn Bay
Kayak on the lake, sunbath on the white sand beach, play tennis/basketball, or cool-down and play with kids at the water fountain during summer or skate during the winter.
Get away to a vast playground of over 50 interconnected provincial parks and recreation areas. Kananaskis Country covers 4,257 sq. km (1,643 sq. mi) of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies.
Just an hour west of Calgary and a stone’s throw to Banff National Park, K-Country, as it is known by the locals, offers some of the best hiking and white-water rafting in summer and cross-country skiing and snowshoeing in winter. Set out to excellent trails that radiate from the alpine town of Canmore which has all the amenities.
Hire a guide and climb to the top of a mountain or go deep beneath on a cave and cavern tour. Camp in one of the many public camping grounds and wake up to the fresh air.
Kananaskis Country Campgrounds
McLean Creek TrailGet away to a vast playground of over 50 interconnected provincial parks and recreation areas. Kananaskis Country covers 4,257 sq. km (1,643 sq. mi) of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies.
Just an hour west of Calgary and a stone’s throw to Banff National Park, K-Country, as it is known by the locals, offers some of the best hiking and white-water rafting in summer and cross-country skiing and snowshoeing in winter. Set out to excellent trails that radiate from the alpine town of Canmore which has all the amenities.
Hire a guide and climb to the top of a mountain or go deep beneath on a cave and cavern tour. Camp in one of the many public camping grounds and wake up to the fresh air.
Spend the afternoon or early morning at this popular canoe, picnic, and hiking trail destination that's only 15 minutes north of Auburn Bay. Enjoy the fresh air, walk along nature trails by the river banks, watch nursing geese in the lakes, or watch some deer graze by the hillsides. This is also a popular sanctuary for several varieties of birds, wild geese and beavers.
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Carburn Park
67 Riverview Dr SESpend the afternoon or early morning at this popular canoe, picnic, and hiking trail destination that's only 15 minutes north of Auburn Bay. Enjoy the fresh air, walk along nature trails by the river banks, watch nursing geese in the lakes, or watch some deer graze by the hillsides. This is also a popular sanctuary for several varieties of birds, wild geese and beavers.
Plunge into Alberta’s crown jewel, Banff National Park, a mainstay entry in all published lists of Top Places to Visit in the World. The park offers its guests activities galore and a feast for one’s senses. Scuba dive, snow shoe, canoe, watch wildlife or just revel in nature’s beauty!
Banff National Park has a subarctic climate with three eco-regions, including montane, sub-alpine, and alpine. The forests are dominated by Lodgepole pine at lower elevations and Engelmann spruce in higher ones below the treeline, above which is primarily rocks and ice. Mammal species such as the grizzly, cougar, wolverine, elk, bighorn sheep and moose are found, along with hundreds of bird species. Reptiles and amphibians are also found but only a limited number of species have been recorded.
The mountains are formed from sedimentary rocks which were pushed east and over newer rock strata between 80 and 55 million years ago. Over the past few million years, glaciers have at times covered most of the park, but today are found only on the mountain slopes though they include the Columbia Icefield. Erosion from water and ice have carved the mountains into their current shapes.
Banff is 1.5 hours away from our place via Stoney Trail West (AB-201 West) passing through the scenic Kananaskis Country.
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Banff
Plunge into Alberta’s crown jewel, Banff National Park, a mainstay entry in all published lists of Top Places to Visit in the World. The park offers its guests activities galore and a feast for one’s senses. Scuba dive, snow shoe, canoe, watch wildlife or just revel in nature’s beauty!
Banff National Park has a subarctic climate with three eco-regions, including montane, sub-alpine, and alpine. The forests are dominated by Lodgepole pine at lower elevations and Engelmann spruce in higher ones below the treeline, above which is primarily rocks and ice. Mammal species such as the grizzly, cougar, wolverine, elk, bighorn sheep and moose are found, along with hundreds of bird species. Reptiles and amphibians are also found but only a limited number of species have been recorded.
The mountains are formed from sedimentary rocks which were pushed east and over newer rock strata between 80 and 55 million years ago. Over the past few million years, glaciers have at times covered most of the park, but today are found only on the mountain slopes though they include the Columbia Icefield. Erosion from water and ice have carved the mountains into their current shapes.
Banff is 1.5 hours away from our place via Stoney Trail West (AB-201 West) passing through the scenic Kananaskis Country.
Encamp at one of North America's Biggest Resorts with 4,200 skiable acres, 145 named runs with limitless off-piste adventures, exhilarating super steeps, a green run down from every chair lift, terrain for all abilities of skiers and riders, and more terrain than can be skied in a week.
Lake Louise is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Banff National Park. The hamlet is named for the nearby Lake Louise, which in turn was named after the Princess Louise Caroline Alberta (1848–1939), the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria, and the wife of John Campbell, the 9th Duke of Argyll, who was the Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883.
From our place, Lake Louise is only 2 hours and 15 minutes west via the scenic Stoney Trail West (AB-22X). This route will pass through Kananaskis Country where you can feast your eyes with lakes, rivers, mountains, camping sites and quaint neighborhoods like Bragg Creek/Fort Bragg.
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Skigebiet Lake Louise
1 Whitehorn RdEncamp at one of North America's Biggest Resorts with 4,200 skiable acres, 145 named runs with limitless off-piste adventures, exhilarating super steeps, a green run down from every chair lift, terrain for all abilities of skiers and riders, and more terrain than can be skied in a week.
Lake Louise is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Banff National Park. The hamlet is named for the nearby Lake Louise, which in turn was named after the Princess Louise Caroline Alberta (1848–1939), the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria, and the wife of John Campbell, the 9th Duke of Argyll, who was the Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883.
From our place, Lake Louise is only 2 hours and 15 minutes west via the scenic Stoney Trail West (AB-22X). This route will pass through Kananaskis Country where you can feast your eyes with lakes, rivers, mountains, camping sites and quaint neighborhoods like Bragg Creek/Fort Bragg.
Sightseeing
Gasp at the bird’s eye view of Calgary at the Calgary Tower. It is a 191-metre (627 ft.) free standing observation tower in Downtown Calgary, a short 25-minute car drive north (via AB-2) from our place. Originally called the Husky Tower, it was conceived as a joint venture between Marathon Realty Company Limited and Husky Oil as part of an urban renewal plan and to celebrate Canada's centennial of 1967.
The Calgary tower features a revolving restaurant, Sky 360, that rotates so as to give customers a scenic view of downtown Calgary. The restaurant does a complete rotation at noon. The base of the tower is connected through the +15 skyway network to One Palliser Square, Fairmont Palliser Hotel, and EnCana Place. Stairs (802 total steps) to the observation deck are not opened to the public but have been used on occasions for publicity, as well as for an annual charity stair-climbing race.
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Calgary Tower
101 9 Ave SWGasp at the bird’s eye view of Calgary at the Calgary Tower. It is a 191-metre (627 ft.) free standing observation tower in Downtown Calgary, a short 25-minute car drive north (via AB-2) from our place. Originally called the Husky Tower, it was conceived as a joint venture between Marathon Realty Company Limited and Husky Oil as part of an urban renewal plan and to celebrate Canada's centennial of 1967.
The Calgary tower features a revolving restaurant, Sky 360, that rotates so as to give customers a scenic view of downtown Calgary. The restaurant does a complete rotation at noon. The base of the tower is connected through the +15 skyway network to One Palliser Square, Fairmont Palliser Hotel, and EnCana Place. Stairs (802 total steps) to the observation deck are not opened to the public but have been used on occasions for publicity, as well as for an annual charity stair-climbing race.