At 11 square kilometres, Nose Hill Park is one of the largest municipal parks in Canada. It is also Calgary’s highest point, so be prepared for spectacular views. Once on top of the plateau, look around and you will see that Broadcast Hill (the hill where Canada Olympic Park is built) is also flat and at the same elevation as Nose Hill. Hills south of the city near Priddis are the same. These plateaus are the remnants of a 60-million-year-old, swampy, forested landscape into which the Bow and Elbow rivers, and the glaciers that followed their valleys, have incised by 175 metres. Read More