I am so HAPPY to be sharing a walk from my book every Wednesday, June through September on CTV Morning at 7:56 am. Today I featured Ramsay and Inglewood, route 35 in Calgary’s Best Walks. It is quirky and varied, with views of the Rockies, and lots of nature and artwork along the River Walk pathway. Oh yes, and some great coffee, restaurant and shopping stops along 9 Avenue. Check it out here!
Next week, Nose Hill!
My book, Calgary’s Best Walks, is released on March 9, 2015! Here’s a teaser video to get your pumped up about walking in Calgary. Check the books website for more information on the book, and a full list of book launch events!
What is your favourite place to walk in Calgary? Why do you walk? Write to me and send you photos!
There are so many reasons to take a walk in Calgary, in any city. Urban walking can be about art or wilderness, sidewalk shopping or training on stairs. Perhaps your favourite walk leads you to a diner with a great breakfast or maybe you get away, into nature and enjoy fewer distractions.
I want to hear from everyone and anyone about their favourite Calgary walks. I want to see your photos. I hope to learn about hidden pathways and stairways that only the locals know about.
I will give away 10 copies of my upcoming guidebook, Calgary’s Best Walks and the winning stories and photos will be posted on my blog for everyone to read about.
How to Enter
Tweet your stories or photos to @lorifitfrog with the#calgarysbestwalks and #yycwalk
Or write a longer story on the Calgary’s Best Walks Facebook page at www.facebook.com/calgarysbestwalks. Be sure to Like the page while you are there!
Winners will be announced on March 9, my guidebook release date!
Best-selling author of Calgary’s Best Hikes and Walks and Calgary’s Best Bike Rides and Trails, Lori Beattie is back with a brand-new guidebook. Full colour maps, informative walk descriptions and sidebars, lead and inform you as you walk throughout Calgary.
Calgary’s“Queen of the Urban Hike” is back with a new guidebook that leads locals and visitors throughout the best parks, neighbourhoods, people-watching streets and pathways of Calgary. Stroll the River Walk past the East Village, climb out of the downtown core up McHugh Bluffs for Rocky Mountain views, meander the Weaslehead nature trails or mingle with the mule deer in Nose Hill Park’s ravines. Bring your kids, your dog and your sense of adventure. Detailed maps lead you through neighbourhoods and natural parks, to hidden staircases, along paved river pathways and onto people-populated walking streets. Take a step off the beaten path in your own backyard!
To be published by Fit Frog Books, March 2015
Check www.calgarysbestwalks.ca for book launch events and free sample walks.
