Lori presents: CALGARY’S BEST WALKS & the Joy of Walking
Meet Lori!
Join Lori at the Friends of Fish Creek Park speaker series to get a visual tour of the best walks in and around Calgary. Lori’s newest book, Calgary’s Best Walks 3rd edition, features 95 walks, including 50 new walks. Her presentation celebrates the joy of exploring Calgary on foot and becoming a tourist in your own city. Through her writing and presentations, Lori entices us to become explorers, to rediscover our communities, to find surprise and delight in overlooked corners, and to slow down and truly see the places we live. Lori’s books will be for sale at the event.
About the Presenter: Lori Beattie is the owner and guide of Fit Frog Adventures where she has been organizing and leading year-round Calgary walks, hikes, and snowshoe days since 1997. She is also the author of Calgary’s Best Walks, now in its 3rd edition, and Calgary’s Best Bike Rides, and features walking, biking, hiking, and connecting cities on foot and by bike in monthly articles in the Calgary Herald, her walk series on CBC Homestretch and many years as segment host on CTV Morning Live. She presents to groups on the pleasure of self-propelled urban exploration, being a tourist in your own city, building communities through walking, and making Calgary feel like home, one step, or pedal, at a time.
When and where:
Friends of Fish Creek Park Speaker Series at Fish Creek Park Environmental Learning Centre. See the map below. More info and REGISTRATION HERE: https://friendsoffishcreek.org/event/fish-creek-speaker-series-calgarys-best-walks-and-the-joy-of-walking/
More about the book:
Bestselling Alberta author Lori Beattie is back with much expanded 3rd edition of her hugely successful compendium of Calgary’s Best Walks. Taking walkers beyond Calgary, this edition has 95 walks and tasty pit stops including 50 NEW WALKS that lead walkers throughout Calgary’s parks and neighbourhoods, west to Cochrane, and south to Leighton Art Centre and Brown Lowery Provincial Park, with a section on the Kananaskis and Canmore.
Bring your kids, your dog and your sense of adventure. Detailed maps lead you through neighbourhoods and pocket parks, through off leash areas to hidden staircases, along paved river pathways and onto people-populated walking streets. Navigate side streets, enjoying homes, gardens and new perspectives. Make friends with the chickadees on birding strolls throughout the city. Embark on a mural treasure hunt in Sunnyside or the Beltline. Calgary’s Best Walks has something for everyone, including Lori’s favourite coffee shop suggestions for a postwalk treat. Explore Calgary and beyond on these 95 walks, hikes and strolls.
What’s New in the 3rd Edition?
-50+ new walk routes with full-colour maps
-50+ Tasty Pit Stops for that pre or post walk stop
-Beyond Calgary walks in Cochrane, the Leighton Art Centre, Brown Lowery Park, Kananaskis and Canmore along with tasty pit stop suggestions
-110 km Tour de Calgary walk broken into bite size segments
-Birding walks through wetlands
-More urban wilds treks through ravines and environmental reserves
-More off-leash areas featured for pups and their people
-Even more tasty pit stop suggestions – cafés, picnic supply shops, ice cream and craft beer
-New photos and artwork throughout
-New content on topics ranging from Indigenous history, geology, archaeology, botanical gardens, wetlands, and why walking makes us happy!