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Calgary

Canada · 12 quests

History

1 quest
Heritage Park, Calgary🇨🇦 Calgary
Heritage Park
A steam train circles a town of old shops

Nature

3 quests
Nose Hill, Calgary🇨🇦 Calgary
Nose Hill
Native prairie sits above a whole city
Fish Creek, Calgary🇨🇦 Calgary
Fish Creek
A creek threads through cottonwood woods
Rockpiles, Calgary🇨🇦 Calgary
Rockpiles
There is nothing here but stacked stone

Art

3 quests
Peace Bridge, Calgary🇨🇦 Calgary
Peace Bridge
No cars pass through its red frame
Central Library, Calgary🇨🇦 Calgary
Central Library
Its hard shell opens into a curving wooden hall
Wonderland, Calgary🇨🇦 Calgary
Wonderland
A giant head has a door in its face

Food

3 quests
Steak, Calgary🇨🇦 Calgary
Steak
The beef comes with a place name
Beef Tenderloin, Calgary🇨🇦 Calgary
Beef Tenderloin
The beef carries a province in its name
Alberta Lamb, Calgary🇨🇦 Calgary
Alberta Lamb
Its name tells you where the lamb comes from

Sport

1 quest
Saddledome, Calgary🇨🇦 Calgary
Saddledome
Its roof rises like a giant saddle

Party

1 quest
Prohibition, Calgary🇨🇦 Calgary
Prohibition
The cocktails are only the first part of the night

Canada

Photo quests in Calgary

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Calgary holds twelve quests across six categories, with no single one of them defining the place: Art, Food and Nature are level at three quests each. The one category with nothing in Calgary so far is Beach.

One is tier 1, the tier kept for what a visitor would not have found on their own: Peace Bridge. It is also the only quest here whose check-in asks for PRO; the other eleven are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers nine of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Calgary quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The one quests in Calgary the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Calgary

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Calgary

How many photo quests are there in Calgary?
12, across six of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Nature (3), Art (3) and Food (3). Nothing in Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Heritage Park, Nose Hill and Peace Bridge.
What is there to do in Calgary beyond the obvious?
One of the 12 quests in Calgary is tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Calgary holds one at tier 1, two at tier 2 and nine at tier 3. The tier 1 quest here is Peace Bridge, in Art.
Can you do all the Calgary quests on one trip?
Not as one walk. The outermost of the 12 is 151 km from the middle of the Calgary list, which makes this a region rather than a neighbourhood: several are a day out in their own right and are worth planning as such rather than fitted in.
Which Calgary quests can you do for free?
11 of the 12 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 12 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Calgary means one quest: Peace Bridge.
How do I prove I visited a place in Calgary?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Calgary is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Heritage Park fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Calgary sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.