Edworthy Park

Edworthy Park is a city park located in the southwest section of Calgary along the south shore of the Bow River. The Canadian Pacific Railway crosses the length of the park.

It has a surface of 1.27 km², and contains over 5km of hiking and biking trails.

Nature

The park has riparian woodland with aspen, willow and balsam poplar among the trees , with some grassland and mixed shrubland, and an escarpment where white spruce dominates. With the spruce is an isolated population of Douglas-fir, some more than 400 years old.

Freeway plans

Prior to the mid-1990s, the City of Calgary had always intended Edworthy Park to be a temporary park, which would eventually be replaced by an extension of the Shaganappi Trail freeway which would hook up with Sarcee Trail and Bow Trail at a major interchange that would take up most of the park's southwest. During development of the Calgary Transportation Plan (a.k.a. The Go Plan) in 1995, public opposition to the roadway led to it being removed from future consideration. [Cite web| author= City of Calgary| url= http://www.calgary.ca/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_780_230_0_43/http;/content.calgary.ca/CCA/City%20Transportation/Transportation%20Planning/Calgary%20Transportation%20Plan%202005/Calgary%20Transportation%20Plan%202005.htm | title= Calgary Transportation Plan 2005| year= 2005| accessdate= 2007-07-04]

References

External links

* [http://www.calgary.ca/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_427062_0_0_18/Edworthy+Park.htm City of Calgary - Edworthy Park]