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Lethbridge is home to a number of attractions that are fun and unique experiences for your whole family. Immerse yourself in traditional Japanese culture, learn about the history of the NWMP and our city, or just take in nature and relax. We're also the destination hub for day trips to the amazing attractions in our surrounding area like Waterton Lakes National Park.
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Alberta Birds of Prey Centre
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| 2124 16th Ave - Coaldale, Alberta View Map
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When you visit us you will enter and exit our site through our 2,000 sq foot visitors centre. This building serves as our point of entry, gift shop and tourist information centre. With a nature and birds of prey theme, our...
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| Phone: (403) 345-4262 |
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| Fax: (403) 345-6668 |
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Alberta International Airshow
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| http://www.albertaairshow.ca |
The Lethbridge International Airshow Association Proudly Presents: Alberta International Airshow July 25th & 26th, 2009.
The air show is located on Hwy 5, just south of the City of Lethbridge at the Lethbridge International...
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| Phone: 403-380-4245 |
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Aspen Crossing
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| Hwy 24, Mossleigh AB |
Discover our extremely unique garden center. At Aspen Crossing you will find more choice, more quality and helpful staff with the desire to make your shopping experience one of a kind! Yes, it's very well possible that you...
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| Phone: 1-866-440-3500 |
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| Fax: 403-534-2126 |
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Bar U Ranch National Historic Site
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| P.O. Box 168, Longview, Alberta |
•One of the first corporate ranches in Western Canada
•Many colourful characters worked at the ranch, including former slave John Ware and the outlaw The Sundance Kid
•Visit ranch buildings, see demonstrations,...
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| Phone: (403) 395-2212 |
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| Fax: (888) 773-8888 |
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Bellevue Underground Mine
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| 21814 - 28th Ave Bellevue, Crowsnest Pass |
•Visitor don a miner’s helmet and headlight to tour a real underground mine
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| Phone: (403) 563-3217 |
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| Fax: (403) 564-4700 |
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| Phone: (403) 734-5171 |
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| Fax: (403) 734-2346 |
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Bomber Command Museum of Canada
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| PO Box 1051, Nanton, Alberta |
•Canada’s Bomber Command Memorial Museum
•37,000 square feet facility featuring a huge, four-engined Lancaster airplane, twin-engined Blenheim Bomber and other aircraft.
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| Phone: (403) 646-2270 |
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| Fax: (403) 646-2214 |
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Bowman Arts Centre
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| 811 - 5 Avenue S. |
The Gallery Program of the Bowman Arts Centre provides a professional exhibition venue for artists and gallery visitors. The Bowman supervises three exhibition spaces; the Shirley Wyngaard and Music Room Galleries at the Bowman...
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| Phone: 403-327-2813 |
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Brewery Gardens
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| 50 - 1 Ave S. |
The gardens are planted by the City of Lethbridge every spring, and they flower until the close of the season. The garden is for viewing only. Also a wonderful vantage point for the High Level Bridge.
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| Phone: 403-320-1223 |
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Carriage House Theatre
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| 353 Main Street P.O. Box 1148, Cardston, Alberta |
•Live theatre featuring a full line up of shows all summer
•Historic theatre building
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| Phone: (403) 653-1000 |
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| Fax: (403) 653-0007 |
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Castle Mountain Resort
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| Box 610 Pincher Creek, Alberta |
•Ski resort with Canada’s longest fall line and cat skiing
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| Phone: (403) 627-5101 |
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| Fax: (403) 627-3515 |
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Claresholm & District Museum
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| 5126, Hwy 2. |
The Claresholm Museum, officially opened in 1969, is committed to preserving and exhibiting the history of this unique region of Southern Alberta. The museum is located in our historic sandstone railway station. The station...
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| Phone: 403-625-3131 |
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| Fax: 403-625-3869 |
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Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Museum
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| Box 156 Warner, Alberta |
•Site of dinosaur egg discovery
•Features a Hadrosaur nest and embryo, ancient fossils and dinosaur displays
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| Phone: (403) 642-2118 |
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| Fax: (403) 642-3660 |
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Empress Theatre
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| 235 Main Street Fort Macleod, Alberta |
•The oldest continuously operating theatre in Western Canada
•Unique mix of original live theatre, intimate concerts with international recording artists, and regular movie showings
•Featured on television program...
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| Phone: (403) 553-4404 |
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| Fax: (403) 553-4210 |
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Fort Museum of the Northwest Mounted Police
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| 219 25 Street Fort Macleod, Alberta |
•Replica Fort and interpretive centre telling the story of the first outpost of the North West Mounted Police in Western Canada
•Replica live musical ride (uniformed members on horseback performing maneuvers to music)...
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| Phone: (403) 553-4703 |
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| Fax: (403) 553-3451 |
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Fort Whoop-up Interpretive Centre
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| Located in Indian Battle Park Off Whoop-Up Dr. W. View Map
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You will find a place bustling with entrepreneurial spirit,
laced with rebellious corruption. It's a chaotic centre of
commerce where danger looms and the air is thick with
excitement. You might get shot...you might get...
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| Phone: (403) 329-0444 |
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| Fax: (403) 329-0645 |
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Frank Slide Interpretive Centre
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| Box 959 Blairmore, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta |
•Site of Canada’s deadliest rockslide
•Tells the story of Turtle Mountain – the Mountain that moves slowly, and is still the most monitored piece of earth in the world
•Hands-on access to scientific equipment,...
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| Phone: (403) 562-7388 |
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| Fax: (403) 562-8635 |
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Galt Historic Railway Park
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| 229 - Fourth Avenue, Stirling, Alberta |
•The original 1890 depot that was located on the Canada-USA border was moved to Stirling and refurbished as a historic attraction
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| Phone: (403) 756-3379 |
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| Fax: (403) 756-2262 |
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Galt Museum & Archives
The Galt Museum & Archives engages and educates the public in the unique human history of south-western Alberta by preserving and presenting, with passion and innovation, our two and three dimensional collections, stories and...
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| Phone: 403-320-3898 |
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Gem of the West Museum
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| 1306 - 20th St. Coaldale, AB |
The "Gem of the West" is a name borrowed from Coaldale's early days. The Coaldale area was so named by a visitor when its richness was observed soon after irrigation came to the region. The museum is located in the old Mennonite...
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| Phone: (403) 345-5000 |
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Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
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| Box 1977, Fort Macleod, Alberta |
•UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE
•One of the largest and best-preserved buffalo jumps in the world
•Unique building constructed into the cliffs
•Drumming & Dancing
•Blackfoot Nations Culture (Blackfoot...
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| Phone: (403) 553-2731 |
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| Fax: (403) 553-3141 |
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Helen Schuler Coulee Centre
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| Access at the West end of 3rd Avenue South and Scenic Drive |
The Helen Schuler Coulee Centre, also known as the Nature Centre, is located in the Lethbridge Nature Reserve. The Nature Reserve consists of 82 hectares (203 acres) of protected land. The Centre is a resource for information...
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| Phone: (403) 320-3064 |
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Heritage Acres
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| Box 2496 Pincher Creek, Alberta |
•Working farm museum and pioneer village
•Antique farm equipment and machinery
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| Phone: (403) 627-2430 |
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Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village
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| 1037 Bev McLachlin Drive, Pincher Creek, Alberta |
•Over 23 restored buildings and thousands of artifacts recreate an authentic pioneer village
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| Phone: (403) 627-3684 |
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| Fax: (403) 627-5850 |
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Lethbridge Corn Maze
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| Range Rd. 224, between Hwy. 519 and Township Rd. 10-4 |
•Corn maze with a different design each year to get lost in
•Berry farm and other farm related activities
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| Phone: (403) 381-2367 |
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| Fax: (403) 327-4436 |
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Michelsen Farms
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| NE corner of 2nd Avenue and 6th Street |
The Michelsen home was a favorite gathering place for many years, and the family hosted my dances typical of those house parties. Though by today's standards the space was limited, moving furniture and rolling back rugs in...
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| Phone: 403-756-3491 |
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New West Theatre
New West offers a full season of seven different productions. Two all new sensational music/comedy revues make the Yates Cente the place to be in the summer with shows running nightly at 8pm from June until the end of August.
New...
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| Phone: (403) 381-9378 |
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Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden
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| 9th Ave S - Mayor Magrath Drive View Map
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The Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden offers you an unforgettable experience, combining the beauty of nature in a serene setting. From the first spring blossom to the final autumn leaf, the Garden is an oasis of tranquility. Step...
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| Phone: (403) 328-3511 |
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| Fax: (403) 328-0511 |
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Okotoks Erratic
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| Okotoks |
•The World’s largest glacial erratic (a rock transferred by glacier ice)
•Okotoks is Blackfoot for “Big Rock”
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Prairie Tractor & Engine Museum
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| Hwy. 843, South of Picture Butte |
•Over 100 antique farm machines and irrigation equipment
•Recreation of an authentic pioneer village
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| Phone: (403) 732-5451 |
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Remington Carriage Museum
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| P.O. Box 1649, Cardston, Alberta |
•One of the top 2 carriage collections in the world
•Largest collection of horse-drawn vehicles in North America
•Carriage rides, displays and stories
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| Phone: (403) 653-5139 |
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| Fax: (403) 653-5160 |
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Southern Alberta Art Gallery
The primary object of the Southern Alberta Art Gallery Association is to foster the work of contemporary artists who challenge the boundaries of their disciplines and to advance their work in a larger public realm.
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| Phone: (403) 327-8770 |
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| Fax: (403) 328-3913 |
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Taber Irrigation Museum
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| 4702 50 Street |
The Taber & District Museum Society is a Registered Not for Profit Society and a Registered Charity. (Income Tax receipts for any donations over $10.00) It is the mandate of the Society to operate the Taber Irrigation Impact...
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| Phone: 403-223-5708 |
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| Fax: 403-223-0529 |
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The Great Canadian Barn Dance
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| Box 163 Hillspring, Alberta |
•Celebrates tradition of community barn dances in Western culture
•Dinner and entertainment followed by country dance lessons and live music in the barn
•Camping, boating and hay rides
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| Phone: (403) 626-3407 |
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| Fax: (403) 626-3088 |
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Three Rivers Rock and Fossil Museum
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| Highway 785 & 510, Pincher Creek, Alberta |
•Over 3,500 specimens of artifacts, fossils, insects, shells, minerals and natural oddities from around the world
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| Phone: (403) 627-2206 |
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Vulcan Tourism & Trek Station
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| 115 Centre Street E, Box 1161, Vulcan, Alberta |
•Official STAR TREK Capital of Canada
•31 foot long, 9 foot tall, 5 tonne replica of the USS Enterprise christened the Vulcan Starship FX6-1995-A
•Hosts annual Star Trek convention
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| Phone: (403) 485-2994 |
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| Fax: (403) 485-2878 |
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Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
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| Waterton Lakes National Park, Southwest Alberta & Glacier National Park, Northern Montana |
•UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE
•World’s first Peace Park
•Waterton was named by Frommer’s Travel Guide as one of the top destinations for 2009
•Glacier Park is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2010
•Waterton...
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| Phone: (403) 859-2224 |
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Windy Rafters Barn Dance
Experience ‘The feel of Country’ with country style roast beef dinner (chicken option) and country music. Kick up your heels, or relax and enjoy the atmosphere and memorabilia of country life in an early 1900's horse barn,...
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| Phone: 403.553.2130 |
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| Fax: 403.553.2106 |
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Writing-On-Stone National Historic Site
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| East of Milk River |
•Largest collection of Rock art (petroglyphs and pictographs) in North America
•Rock art dating 5,000 + years old
•Mystic hoodoos and Badlands
•Vision site for Blackfoot Peoples
•Campground and...
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| Phone: (403) 647-2364 |
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