Calgary Walks: Enjoy fall colours in north Calgary’s Confederation Park and area

With paved pathways that wind beneath the poplars and alongside the creek, Confederation Park is the perfect place to start or ramp up your walking habit. Once known as the “coulee of the north,” Confederation Park was moulded and sculpted into gently sloped and contoured hillsides in celebration of Canada’s centennial in 1967. All three walks travel through the peaceful park where balsam poplars thrive, and shrubs like water birch, red-osier dogwood, and willow provide habitat for ducks, geese and gulls as well as muskrats and many winged invertebrates like butterflies and dragonflies. Read More