Downtown Edmonton
Downtown Edmonton is the central business district of Edmonton, Alberta.
Downtown Edmonton is the central business district of Edmonton, Alberta. Located at the geographical centre of the city, the downtown area is bounded by 109 Street to the west, 105 Avenue to the north, 97 Street to the east, 97 Avenue and Rossdale Road to the south, and the North Saskatchewan River to the southeast.
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Worth seeing in and around Downtown Edmonton
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.
- 01University of Alberta
The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta, and Henry Marshall Tory, the university's first president.
3.1 km · public research university in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia - 02Commonwealth Stadium
Commonwealth Stadium is an open-air, multi-purpose stadium located in the McCauley neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It has a seating capacity of 56,302, making it the largest stadium in Canada.
2 km · stadium in Edmonton, Alberta · Wikipedia - 03Rogers Place
Rogers Place is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Construction started in March 2014, and the building officially opened on September 8, 2016.
600 m · multi-use indoor arena in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia - 04Northlands Coliseum
Northlands Coliseum is a defunct indoor arena in Edmonton, Alberta. It was used for sports events and concerts, and was home to the Edmonton Oilers of the World Hockey Association and National Hockey League, and the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Hockey League.
3.8 km · indoor arena in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia - 05Art Gallery of Alberta
The Art Gallery of Alberta is an art museum in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The museum occupies an 8,000 square metres building at Churchill Square in downtown Edmonton.
200 m · art museum in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia - 06Clarke Stadium
Clarke Stadium is a multipurpose stadium located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The stadium was originally built for Canadian football.
1.7 km · soccer and football stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia - 07St. Josaphat Cathedral
St. Josaphat Cathedral is a Ukrainian Catholic cathedral in McCauley, Edmonton, Alberta, one of the best examples of Byzantine Rite church architecture in Canada.
1.2 km · church building in Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia - 08Muttart Conservatory
The Muttart Conservatory is a botanical garden in the North Saskatchewan River valley, across from the downtown core in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. One of the best-known landmarks of Edmonton, the conservatory consists of three city-operated greenhouses, public gardens, as well as four feature pyramids for display of plant species found across three biomes, with the fourth pyramid hosting a seasonal display.
1.3 km · botanical garden in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia - 09St. Joseph's Basilica, Edmonton
The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Joseph is a Catholic minor basilica in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The basilica, located west of downtown Edmonton is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Edmonton and is the second-largest church in Edmonton.
1.7 km · church in Alberta, Canada · Wikipedia - 10Royal Alberta Museum
The Royal Alberta Museum is a museum of human and natural history in Downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, located north of City Hall. The museum is the largest in western Canada with more than 7,600 square metres exhibition space and 38,900 square metres in total.
300 m · History museum in Edmonton, Alberta · Wikipedia
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Getting to Downtown Edmonton
- Airports
- Edmonton (YEG), 27 km · Calgary (YYC), 272 km
- Stations
- MacEwan station, 700 m · University station, 2.9 km · Strathcona Canadian Pacific Railway Station, 3 km · Stadium station, 2.2 km · Health Sciences/Jubilee station, 3.5 km
- Calgary → Downtown Edmonton280 km · quickest by road, 4h 31m · C$37–49
- Saskatoon → Downtown Edmonton485 km · quickest by air, 4h 50m · C$160–250
- Kelowna → Downtown Edmonton579 km · quickest by air, 5h 26m · C$180–280
- 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 Edmonton
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 Edmonton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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From Wikivoyage: Edmonton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Downtown Edmonton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Downtown Edmonton
Downtown Edmonton is 2 km from Edmonton, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Edmontoncapital city of the province of Alberta, Canada1.3 km
- Bonnie Doonneighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada2.7 km
- Alberta Avenueneighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada2.8 km