things to do in calgary

[Superfraggle]

Originally Posted by Minnie

Buy some Yak Trax and go out to Johnston Canyon on the Bow Valley Parkway and you can see some frozen waterfalls. Continue on up to Chateau Lake Louise - lake's frozen but it's a pretty spot and you can wander around the Chateau. Do a horse drawn sleigh ride around the lake and back. Rent skates - figure skates, hockey skates, sticks, skis, snow shoes. Go into Banff and wander around the Banff Springs. They rent skates there too and there's a rink below the hotel. You can drive down to Bow Falls and see them (they'll be mostly frozen or frozen). Take a ride up the Gondola to the top of Sulphur Mountain, and walk on the boardwalk over to Sanson's Peak. Go to the hot springs in Banff.

Devonian Gardens sucks ass since the redo. Boring as hell.

Yak Trax are not necessary for any of this.

[Minnie]

Depends. We've been there when there's lots of snow and you're right - probably don't necessarily need the Trax for the Canyon that time. But if it's been melting and freezing a lot like it had been another time we went, we really could have used the Trax, many times.

And um, I wasn't suggesting YakTrax for all of it. Just the ice walk at the Canyon. What an odd nitpick on your part.

[Superfraggle]

Originally Posted by Minnie

Depends. We've been there when there's lots of snow and you're right - probably don't necessarily need the Trax for the Canyon that time. But if it's been melting and freezing a lot like it had been another time we went, we really could have used the Trax, many times.

And um, I wasn't suggesting YakTrax for all of it. Just the ice walk at the Canyon. What an odd nitpick on your part.

It just jumped out as the first term in the post. If people think they need to buy something, they are less likely to go ahead and follow the rest of your good advice.

[TurnedTheCorner]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

I would hope no one (besides TTC) is suggesting it's bad that within driving distance Calgary has some of the most beautiful scenes in the world to their west and one of the best museums in the world to their east.

It was a throwaway comment, I wouldn't read that much into it. What I would say is that, for a lifelong Calgarian, I would be completely terrible at coming up with things for visitors to the city to see and do.

[GreatWhiteEbola]

A list of a few indoor things to do.

• Go indoor paint balling
• Visit the Calgary Tower
• Visit the Military Museum
• Take in an Alberta Ballet show
• Walk around Eau Claire market
• Go skating at the Olympic Oval
• Swing the clubs at the Golf Dome
• Catch a Jubilation’s dinner production
• Take in a show at Stage West Dinner Theatre
• Play Soccer at the soccer dome (NW or SE)
• Check out the Calgary Philharmonic orchestra
• Catch a comedy show at Yuk Yuks or the comedy cave
• Shooters Edge and practice your target shooting
• Speeders indoor go-karts

http://bestcalgaryhomes.com/calgary-indoor-activities

[JiriHrdina]

The Calgary Zoo is quite nice.
If you are up for a drive Frank Slide is a pretty neat place to go.
For theatre I would check out what Vertigo has on right now - almost everything they do is good and has wide appeal

[Magnum PEI]

Glenbow Museum is awesome. Never enough time to see/read everything.
Dinosaur Provincial Park > Drumheller, though it's a longer drive. It's actually pretty cool there in the winter.
Never been but I hear the Cantos music museum is pretty cool, it has a theremin that you can play.

[Minnie]

If you're going down to Frank, you may as well make it a 2 day trip and go further on down to Waterton. I'd rather do Waterton in the summer but that's just my personal feeling.

[CaptainCrunch]

[DuffMan]

King Eddy
French Maids

[Northendzone]

Came in here looking for a Chicken on the Way reference, and thanks to Captian Crunch I am leaving satisfied

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

King Eddy
French Maids

Good suggestions for 2003.

[undercoverbrother]

Second the Military Museum, I would give the Navy and Air Force parts a miss.....

Also, I think Big Rock does tours and as does Wild Rose I think.

Zoo good, as is the $25 million bridge, walk back and forth a couple of times.

[aem123]

thank you everybody for your help on this thread - we ended up spending one day driving to elbow falls and then went on to Banff for tour of the town and had a couple of beers in a couple of pubs there - the next day we went to the calgary zoo and then hit a couple of pubs in calgary and then toured chinatown and had a meal in chinatown - then we drank some beers in my apartment - overall with your help i was able to keep my friend entertained for 2 days - with all of the suggestions here, we could have kept busy for a week - thank you again everybody for all of your help