Bow Habitat Station, Calgary
You can learn all you want to about natural environment at the Bow Habitat Station. This is the first ever eco-park in Alberta. At this station, you will find exciting interactive exhibits and displays. Visitors are taken on a working trout hatchery tours, which incidentally is one of the largest enclosed hatcheries in North America.
Apart from this, you will also find the Pearce Estate Park Interpretive Wetland, the Sam Livingstone Fish Hatchery and the interpretive Visitor鈥檚 Center. You can enjoy the fascinating experience of watching more than 3 million fishes that are raised here.
You will also learn everything you need to know about fishes here including the fact that there are over 65 species of fishes in Alberta. You cannot miss out the enormous rainbow trout display. If you have children, you can be sure they will be delighted matching internal organs of fish with their names. To find out if the answer is right or not, you can check the light activated after you press the button.
Excitement continues as adults and kids do things they would not have otherwise dreamt about. You can even open a manhole cover and peek inside. Outside, you will find the Pearce Estate Park Interpretive Wetland. Here you can walk the trails or simply sit and relax under the natural setting.
Apart from this, you will also find the Pearce Estate Park Interpretive Wetland, the Sam Livingstone Fish Hatchery and the interpretive Visitor鈥檚 Center. You can enjoy the fascinating experience of watching more than 3 million fishes that are raised here.
You will also learn everything you need to know about fishes here including the fact that there are over 65 species of fishes in Alberta. You cannot miss out the enormous rainbow trout display. If you have children, you can be sure they will be delighted matching internal organs of fish with their names. To find out if the answer is right or not, you can check the light activated after you press the button.
Excitement continues as adults and kids do things they would not have otherwise dreamt about. You can even open a manhole cover and peek inside. Outside, you will find the Pearce Estate Park Interpretive Wetland. Here you can walk the trails or simply sit and relax under the natural setting.
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Sight Name: Bow Habitat Station
Sight Location: Calgary, Canada (See walking tours in Calgary)
Sight Type: Attraction/Landmark
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Sight Location: Calgary, Canada (See walking tours in Calgary)
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Walking Tours in Calgary, Alberta
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One such is the Old City Hall, a historic sandstone building that commands attention with its majestic presence.
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Tour Duration: 1 Hour(s)
Travel Distance: 0.6 Km or 0.4 Miles
One such is the Old City Hall, a historic sandstone building that commands attention with its majestic presence.
A short walk... view more
Tour Duration: 1 Hour(s)
Travel Distance: 0.6 Km or 0.4 Miles
Calgary Introduction Walking Tour
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Tour Duration: 2 Hour(s)
Travel Distance: 3.9 Km or 2.4 Miles
The area that is called Calgary today was once populated by indigenous people, now known as the First Nations, until Europeans arrived in the 19th century.
John Glenn, an Irish immigrant who served... view more
Tour Duration: 2 Hour(s)
Travel Distance: 3.9 Km or 2.4 Miles
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Tour Duration: 2 Hour(s)
Travel Distance: 4.8 Km or 3 Miles
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Tour Duration: 2 Hour(s)
Travel Distance: 4.8 Km or 3 Miles
Sculptures in Calgary Walking Tour
In Calgary, you won't find imposing grey monuments with tonnes of history behind them. Instead, the city boasts a wealth of outdoor sculptures of a different sort. It's all about the sites scattered throughout the city, rarely revealed in tourist handbooks but colorful enough to be captured in photos. Some of them weird, some outstanding, and some merely amusing.
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Tour Duration: 2 Hour(s)
Travel Distance: 2.8 Km or 1.7 Miles
One of the notable... view more
Tour Duration: 2 Hour(s)
Travel Distance: 2.8 Km or 1.7 Miles