As Canada’s festival city, Edmonton offers over 30 annual festivals throughout the year including the internationally renowned Edmonton Folk, Fringe and Street Performers festivals. Festivals in Edmonton focus on a wide array of artistic disciplines including dance, film, music, theatre and the visual arts. But as any tourist will soon find out, the excitement doesn’t stop there: food, sports, and even seasons such as winter are also celebrated in this festival forward metropolis.
A Few of the Things to See and Do in Edmonton:
• Enjoy the North Saskatchewan River Valley, offering the largest expanse of urban parkland in North America with its gorgeous river valley and vast system of parks and natural areas to explore.
• Visit the Royal Alberta Museum, one of Canada’s most popular museums offers a range of exhibitions and activities for every age level and interest.
• Eat out. Greater Edmonton is home to a wide dining selection with more than 3,500 restaurants. Many of these restaurants mirror the diversity of more than 50 ethnic groups and feature regionally inspired menus.
• Listen to musical events at the Winspear featuring the largest concert organ in Canada.
• Discover Edmonton’s wealth of visual art in over 60 galleries and public exhibits including the Gallery Walk, the first of its kind in Canada.
• The new Art Gallery of Alberta, which opened January 31, 2010, is an 85,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility and a premiere presentation venue for international, Canadian and First Nations art, education and scholarship. Designed by Randall Stout Architects, Inc. of Los Angeles, the building itself is a work of art.
• See the herds of free roaming plains bison, wood bison, moose, deer, and elk at Elk Island National Park. With the exception of the Serengeti Plains of Africa, Elk Island National Park has higher densities of hoofed mammals per square kilometer than any other wild area in the world!
• Stay in and play at the world’s largest shopping and entertainment experience and the greatest indoor show on earth – West Edmonton Mall!
• Ride the steam train at Fort Edmonton Park (Canada’s largest living history museum) which now includes a beautiful parlour and the restoration of authentic visitor seating as a result of the filming of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford in September 2005.
• Explore Old Strathcona Historic Area, voted one of the Top 10 Coolest Neighbourhoods in Canada and one of Canada’s top five shopping districts. It was also recently named a Provincial Historic Area.
• Ride the High Level Streetcar and enjoy a trip from the top deck of the
• world’s highest streetcar bridge - the High Level Bridge built in 1912.
For more information visit www.edmonton.com or call 1.800.463.4667
