Edworthy Park and Lawrey Walking and Cycling
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Edworthy Park and Lawrey Gardens 5050 Spruce Drive S.W. (Bow Trail and Spruce Drive S.W.) NW NE 2" ± TRANS CENTRE ST CANADA BO W HWY RI VER MEMORIAL DR 2" TR MACLEOD SW SE 2" Details: 5050 Spruce Drive S.W. (Bow Trail and Spruce Drive S.W.) 2" EDWORTHY Call 3-1 1 (or 1-403-268-2489 from ! 2" PARK ! outside Calgary). ! ! www.calgary.ca/parks ! ! 1 ! .4 ! ! ! Recommended mode: cycling ! 2" ! ! ! ! ! ! ! or walking. ! ! ! ! ! ! .5 ! ! ! 2 1 ! ! . ! Distance: ! 4 ! ! ! ! ! • 5.5 km from downtown to ! DOWNT ! ! OWN 8 ! ! 0. ! ! ! Lawrey Gardens – one way. 1.4 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 2" 2" 2" 2" • 7 km from downtown to ! ! 2" 2" 2" 2" 2" 2" 2" Edworthy Park – one way. Features/amenities: • Hiking trails. 2" • Playground areas. • Picnic areas and barbecue pits • Washrooms. • Water fountains. Mountain landscapes in the city • Fishing access on the Bow River. Alternative access via transit: If you would like to do a portion Description of your trip via transit, Edworthy The area known as Edworthy Park was used by Park can be reached using Calgary indigenous cultures as a campsite long before Transit bus route 1 from downtown Europeans arrived in Calgary. It was populated (Note: bicycles may only be taken by hundreds of bison, which provided residents on buses equipped with proper with food and supplies. This land eventually transportation racks. Contact became a sandstone quarry and brick factory. Calgary Transit for details.) The Douglas fir escarpment at Edworthy Park is Harry Boothman Bridge Directions Fees: none. home to a rare stand of old-growth Douglas fir Start at the Eau Claire Trans Canada Trail Pavilion. trees, some more than 400 years old. Edworthy Travel west along the Bow River pathway (with the Hours: 5 a.m. – 11 p.m. Park and Lawrey Gardens are great places to river on your right). Go past the Jaipur Bridge and exercise, hike, picnic or relax around a fire. two smaller pedestrian bridges. Pass through the Nearby attractions/facilities: Peace Park and continue west past the Hillhurst • Shouldice Athletic Park. Louise Bridge and a pedestrian bridge that • Pumphouse Theatre. crosses beneath Crowchild Trail. Continue west • Shaganappi Point Golf Course. with the rail lines on your left until you arrive at a • Foothills Hospital Medical Centre. fork in the pathway. Both legs of this fork will take you into Lawrey Gardens (they reconnect after a short distance). Picnic tables in Edworthy Park Just beyond Lawrey Gardens, cross the tracks Worth noting and continue along a well-treed section of the Settler John Lawrey is thought to be one of pathway. You will come across a bike rack marking the first farmers to build and use a windmill on an entrance to the Douglas Fir Trail – a popular the prairies. off-pathway hiking trail. Continue following the pathway. It will cross the railway tracks once more and you will arrive at Edworthy Park. Stone marker at Edworthy Park www.calgary.ca | call 3-1-1 THE CITY OF CALGARY Edworthy Park and Lawrey Gardens 5050 Spruce Drive S.W. (Bow Trail and Spruce Drive S.W.) Picnic tables in Edworthy Park C 32 AVE N A M 3 B D R R IA " CONFEDERATION N 2 PARK W T CONFEDERATION S PARK 52 D R GOLF COURSE ± UNIVERSITY E OF M S CALGARY O H H A N G VE CONFEDERATION 24 A C A A PARK L N P L I ST CENTRE A E FOOTHILLS D T 2 D A 2 1 D P R ATHLETIC 9 R L S A P U PARK Y U T V I H A T N I W E UXBRIDGE DR L K R I N V L C C W 9 ST E W 2 ST A R 2" R M S McMAHON W ST 19 I T STADIUM W Y T S E 3 Y 4 T T N D S VE R 16 AVE N 16 A NORTH HILL SOUTHERN FOOTHILL'S 14 AVE N SHOPPING CENTRE ALBERTA MEDICAL 2" INSTITUTE OF CENTRE 21 21 ST W TECHNOLOGY 13 AVE N W ! " M T N 2 E 1 2 AVE M S 1 JAIPUR ! 1A O 9 AV BRIDGE R 2 E ! I N EDWORTHY AL D PARK ! R ! 22 ST W ST 7 AVE N ! 7 AVE N N E ! RILEY V ! A 6 AVE N PARK 2 ! R 7 T S T ! ! T S 5 AVE N ! " W EE Y ! 2 H ! ! PRINCE'S C T ! ! R R ! ! ! ! ISLAND A O ! ! 21 ST W S ! ! W ! ! ! ! 19 19 ST W ! D ! HILLHURST/ ! ! ! E CROWCHILD TR CROWCHILD AU CL E A 14 ST W 14 IRE SPRUCE DR ! LOUISE ! MARKET ! WESTMOUNT RD BRIDGE ! ! LAWREY ! 2 AVE S ! ! W GARDENS ! A ! VE BROADVIEW AVE ! R ! 4 AVE L ! S E ! Y W D E R B ! ! O T W ! T S TR ! ! S 6 AVE S 2 ! ! ! ! ! ! 1 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! CROWCHILD TRAIL ! ! 2" " ! ! MEWATA S 2 2" " " Legend PEDESTRIAN ! ! ! HAW 2 2 2" 2" " " BRIDGE BRIDGE MILLEN 2 2 45 ST W 45 IUM DirectedRoute Route PARK 9 AVE S CAL Regional Pathways 2" CTrain and& Stations Stations SHAGANAPPI GOLF COURSE GARY TOWER W W W T 10 T AVE S Trans Canada Trail W S T W Regional Bikeways S 5 S T 2 5 Pavillion T 1 1 S 8 S 1 2007-1190 www.calgary.ca | call 3-1-1.