Calgary's Best Walks Guidebook
Bestselling Alberta author Lori Beattie is back with an expanded and updated 2nd edition of her hugely successful compendium of 45 Calgary’s best walks and urban jaunts. Get your signed copy at www.fitfrog.ca or at stores throughout Calgary! What’s new? 10 new walk routes with full-colour maps- 40+ suggested detours for the urban explorer to extend and expand walk routes- 35 revised and updated walk route maps- New wetlands and wilderness walkabouts- More off-leash areas featured for pups and their people- Even more tasty pit stop suggestions – cafés, ice cream and craft beer– New photos and artwork throughout– new content on topics ranging from First Nations history, geology, archaeology, botanical gardens, wetlands, and why walking makes us happy!
Bestselling Alberta author Lori Beattie is back with an expanded and updated 2nd edition of her hugely successful compendium of 45 Calgary’s best walks and urban jaunts.
Get your signed copy at www.fitfrog.ca or at stores throughout Calgary!
What’s new? 10 new walk routes with full-colour maps- 40+ suggested detours for the urban explorer to extend and expand walk routes- 35 revised and updated walk route maps- New wetlands and wilderness walkabouts- More off-leash areas featured for pups and their people- Even more tasty pit stop suggestions – cafés, ice cream and craft beer– New photos and artwork throughout– new content on topics ranging from First Nations history, geology, archaeology, botanical gardens, wetlands, and why walking makes us happy!
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Calgary’s Best Walks
2nd Edition December 2020
copyright © 2015, 2020 Lori Beattie
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system
or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise,
without prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of a reviewer, who may
quote brief passages in a review to print in a magazine or newspaper, or broadcast on radio
or television. In the case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, users must obtain a
license from Access Copyright, the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency.
Published by: Fit Frog Adventures
Calgary, AB
www.fitfrog.ca
Social: @lorifitfrog
lorib@fitfrog.ca
Connect with the author on Instagram and Facebook @lorifitfrog or at calgarysbestwalks.ca
Order books! Contact the author or booksellers can order directly from Sandhill Book
Distributors, www.sandhillbooks.com
For permissions to reproduce the works of art in this volume, grateful acknowledgement is
made to the copyright holders thereof.
Maps, book design, layout and illustration by Sergio Gaytán
Front cover artwork and interior artwork, as marked, copyright Sheila Kernan,
www.sheilakernan.com
Interior artwork, as marked, copyright Terra Simieritsch, www.terrasimieritsch.com
Interior artwork, as marked, copyright Mandy Budan, www.budanart.com
Photographs by Lori Beattie except in Walk 2 and Walk 30
Photograph in Walk 2 (leaves with raindrops) and Walk 30 (feature) by Keith Dewing
Editing by Meaghan Craven
Author photo by Trudie Lee, www.harderlee.ca
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Calgary’s best walks: 45 urban jaunts and nature strolls / Lori Beattie.
2nd edition, updated and expanded.
Beattie, Lori, author.
ISBN 9780993953514 (softcover)
1. Walking—Alberta—Calgary—Guidebooks.
2. Hiking—Alberta—Calgary—Guidebooks. 3. Calgary (Alta.)—Guidebooks.
GV199.44.C22 C33 2020 | DDC 917.123/38044—dc23
Printed in Canada
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