Downtown Calgary
Downtown Calgary is a dense urban district in central Calgary, Alberta.
Downtown Calgary is a dense urban district in central Calgary, Alberta. It contains the second largest concentration of head offices in Canada, despite only being the country's third largest city in terms of population. The downtown is divided into several residential, commercial, corporate, and mixed-use neighbourhoods, including the Financial District (CBD), Eau Claire, Chinatown, East Village, Beltline, and the West End.
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Worth seeing in and around Downtown Calgary
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Scotiabank Saddledome
Scotiabank Saddledome is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Located in Stampede Park in the southeast end of downtown Calgary, the Saddledome was built in 1983 to replace the Stampede Corral as the home of the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League, and to host ice hockey and figure skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics.
1.8 km · multi-use indoor arena in Calgary, Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia - 02Calgary Tower
The Calgary Tower is a 190.8-metre free-standing observation tower in the downtown core of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 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.
700 m · observation tower in Calgary, Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia - 03Calgary Zoo
The Wilder Institute's Calgary Zoo is located in Bridgeland, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, just east of the city's downtown and adjacent to the Inglewood and East Village neighborhoods. It is accessible via Calgary's C-Train light rail system, by car via Memorial Drive, and by bicycle and footpath via the Bow River pathway.
2.6 km · zoo in Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia - 04Glenbow Museum
The Glenbow Museum is an art and history regional museum in the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The museum focuses on Western Canadian history and culture, including Indigenous perspectives.
800 m · museum in Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia - 05St. Mary's Cathedral
St. Mary's Cathedral in Calgary, Alberta, Canada is a Catholic cathedral and the seat of the Diocese of Calgary.
1.4 km · cathedral in Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia - 06Prince's Island Park
Prince's Island Park is an urban park in the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is developed on an island on the Bow River, immediately north of downtown Calgary.
600 m · park in Calgary, Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia - 07Telus Sky
Calgary House, is a 60-storey, 222.3 m mixed-use skyscraper in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada. At completion in 2019, the structure building became the third-tallest building in Calgary behind Brookfield Place East and The Bow.
500 m · building in Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia - 08Lougheed House
Lougheed House, or as it was originally known Beaulieu, is a National Historic Site located in the Beltline district of Calgary, Alberta. Originally constructed in 1891 as a home for Senator James Alexander Lougheed and his wife, the structure has since become an iconic heritage building in Calgary.
1.2 km · building in Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia - 09Nexen Building, Calgary
801 Seventh Avenue S.W., commonly known as the Nexen Building, is a high rise office building in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is a 37-storey skyscraper, with a height of 153 m.
700 m · building in Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia - 10Canterra Tower
400 Third is a skyscraper in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Located at 400 3rd Avenue SW, it stands at 177 metres or 45 storeys tall.
200 m · skyscraper · Wikipedia
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Getting to Downtown Calgary
- Airports
- Calgary (YYC), 9 km · Edmonton (YEG), 254 km
- Stations
- 7 Street SW station, 800 m · Zoo station, 3.2 km · Sunnyside station, 1.2 km · Banff Trail station, 4 km · Lions Park station, 2.9 km
- Edmonton → Downtown Calgary281 km · quickest by road, 4h 30m · C$37–49
- Kelowna → Downtown Calgary406 km · quickest by air, 4h 25m · C$140–210
- Saskatoon → Downtown Calgary524 km · quickest by air, 4h 4m · C$140–220
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Downtown Calgary
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Downtown Calgary. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Europe there are non-stop charter flights from London, Glasgow, Manchester, Paris, Amsterdam and Frankfurt.
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If you know how people move in Downtown Calgary – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Downtown Calgary
Downtown Calgary is 1 km from Calgary, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Calgarylargest city in Alberta, Canada600 m
- Rocky View Countymunicipal district of Alberta, Canada1 km
- Inglewoodneighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada2.3 km
- Beltlineneighborhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada1.1 km
- Eau Claireneighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada400 m
- Chinatownneighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada400 m