Fields of grass inside the city

It has become a good habit of ours to go and explore Calgary on bikes at least twice a month. Last Saturday we felt especially strong and decided to cycle to the Fish Creek Park – the largest urban park in Canada. The pathway took us down South along the Bow river, we went through Inglewood and many different parks. The houses there were a lot more interesting than the stick houses we had seen up North. The neighbourhoods were also older, I guess from the times when the stick-houses were not in fashion yet. At some point in time the area looked like we had finally cycled ourselves out of town and ended up on the rural area, but it was still Calgary, just some park that been kept intact. The path was flat and there were very few ups and downs – I liked that a lot since I’m not very good at getting either up or down hills.

One hour later, we were at Fish Creek Park. It had very nice paths and lots of green. We had to stop a few times to make sure that we are going in the right direction that leads us to the West and out of the Park eventually. If you look at the map of Calgary and see a long patch of green at the South -that’s were the park is. It was the weekend of school graduation parties, so we saw lots of nicely dressed people at the restaurant in the park.

The map

My husband wanted to further West and explore the area where the Tsuu Tina nation reserve is, but by that time we had cycled for 2 hours and I wanted to get home the same day. We started heading North and ended up passing a few more really nice neighbourhoods along Elbow river. (There are 2 rivers that go through Calgary – the Bow and the Elbow river).

By the time we had reached Roxboro – where our Estonian friends live, it seemed such a short distance home in comparison to where we had come from. It all depends on the perspective – when we had visited them, it had seemed so far from Downtown.

By the time we made it back home we had cycled 50 km and been out for three and a half hours – a proper bicycle trip indeed.