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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.)

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