Bower Ponds Recreation

The amazing atmosphere will draw you in, and the fantastic/knowledgeable staff will keep you coming back! This is the best place to skate in the winter, and the best place to meet up with friends in the summer. There are Pokemon Go meetups during the summer that literally have the entire area jam-packed with people.Perhaps their board game cafe is the greatest part to mention. Be sure to check out their website because they hold board game tournaments often.

Love skating here in the winter and wandering around the pond in summer, feels like a great outdoor community space with lots happening!

They recently renovated. And it looks amazing according to my wife. I enjoy the conversations with of the staff members. They are always so accommodating. It’s a great place to skate in the winter, and even better place to hang out in the summer. Plus the yearly geese that come and lay eggs and hang out is always an adventure. I will never stop coming here.

1. When they first put in the geese statue things, I was like, not fully awake, and for a split second thought they were real.I am pretty sure I s#!+ myself that morning.2. Movies really play up the gentle and relaxing look of peddle boats. This place shows you the reality of this. It's a WORK OUT. For real, make sure if you do it, you do it on leg day.3. The geese AKA flying velociraptors are all around here. However it seems like there's this mutual understanding between people and geese here, that this is a no attack zone. Somehow this place has rendered geese ...not Canada's most dangerous animal.4. Lots of Pokemon GO stops and gyms. If that's still your jam.5. A squirrel once stalked me around the entire loop. At first is was creepy, but I think I developed a form of Stockholm syndrome, because now we're cool, and even talking about vacationing in Banff. MuddlePuffs (that's obviously his name) is hoping to find a pretty mountain squirrel out there. He's a hopeless romantic like that.10/10

Wonderful place to get outdoors, especially if you love being around water.

Beautiful area to walk or bike around. Bike and paddle boat rentals available. Packed full of pogo gyms and stops for Pokemon go players. Ingress players rejoice! The ponds are packed full of portals to hack and field to your heart's content. There are also many missions and lovely banners to complete while you enjoy walking around.

Been twice in the last month where I have gone for food. Once at 845 and told they don't serve food after 830. Fine fair enough. Went in tonight at quarter after 8 todat and my girlfriend asked for a poutine. The response was that they had already turned off the deep fryer. Very disappointed and I work in a restaurant where you can get anything on the menu right up until closing time.

Nice park with paddle boats and a nice foundation. Lots of places to take nice pictures. Soccer and football and baseball fields.

If you’re planning a road trip from Calgary going to Edmonton, don’t forget to include Red Deer in your itinerary. It’s a good way to relax you foot from the long drive plus you got to visit this wonderful recreation area.

Fun place to hang, lots of activities to do on the water, nice play park for kids, great interconnecting walking trails and good eats. One of my fav places to take the kids. Let them run and burn off some energy. Great skating in the winter.