Motivated by the Experience Pass I was gifted by Tourism Calgary last year, I set out to revisit a few of Calgary, Alberta's top attractions on a brief layover I had in the city last month. The great thing about Tourism Calgary's Experience Pass is that it granted free admission to a number of local hotspots. I'd already photographed a number of them as part of my Around Alberta series over the last few years, so on this day and half revisit it became all about the details.
While not exactly a recommended itinerary, I maximized my time by visiting Studio Bell, the Calgary Public Library, the Glenbow Museum, the Hangar Flight Museum, the Calgary Tower, and Fort Calgary. In addition to several other visits last year where I returned to explore Heritage Park and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, I undoubtedly have a lot of new content in the pipeline that should be popping up online soon. Explore more from around Calgary here.
In 1903 the mining town of Frank was destroyed by a rock slide from Turtle Mountain. Over a century later the 110 million tonnes of limestome rock that fell still covers this part of the Crowsnest Pass in Alberta. Now a popular stopping point on the Crowsnest Highway, Frank Slide remains a unique place to see one of the largest landslides in Canadian history.
