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Fort
Macleod is a community with much to offer its visitors. The
community is rich with museums, interpretive centres, theatre and
other attractions, restaurants, hotels and motels. Community
officials have been promoting the Fort Macleod experience — a
visit to the community that includes stops at places such as The
Fort Museum, Empress Theatre, the 1884 North West Mounted Police
barracks and Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump.
Visitors are also encouraged to tour historic Main Street and the
residential areas to admire the heritage buildings, and to visit
our restaurants and shops. However, once you’ve had a look at
everything Fort Macleod has to offer, the adventure is only
beginning.
Fort Macleod officials encourage people to use Fort Macleod as a
hub from which to do day trips to other tourist attractions. Fort
Macleod is very strategically located for people exploring the
region. Tourists are encouraged to set up their home base at one
of Fort Macleod’s motels, hotels, bed and breakfasts or
campgrounds and then venture out on day trips to nearby
communities and tourist attractions. Quick and easy access to
other popular tourist destinations is offered from Fort Macleod on
Highway 2 and Highway 3, which intersect in the community.
Less than 30 minutes north of Fort Macleod on Highway 2 is the Town
of Claresholm, where you can visit the Claresholm Museum, the
Harvard Memorial and view the community’s historic murals.
Just west of Fort Macleod on Highway 3 is the Oldman River Dam,
which offers recreation such as sailboarding. Nearby is Heritage
Acres Museum and Three Rivers Rock and Fossil Museum.
Head further west on Highway 3 from Fort Macleod and you’ll find
yourself in Pincher Creek, where you will find the Kootenai Brown
Pioneer Village, the Cowboy Poetry Gathering on June 15-19, and
Castle Mountain Resort. Beautiful Beauvais Lake is also nearby.
Just a little further west on Highway 3 and you will find yourself
in the Crowsnest Pass, where you can visit the Frank Slide
Interpretive Centre, Bellevue Underground Mine and the Crowsnest
Museum.
A trip south of Fort Macleod on Highway 3 takes you toward the
Highway 505 turnoff to the Great Canadian Barn Dance at Hill
Spring. Keep going south on Highway 2 and you’ll get to Cardston,
where you will find such attractions as the Remington Carriage
Museum, the Museum of Miniatures, Carriage House Theatre and the
Alberta Temple.
Turn west on Highway 5 at Cardston and you can continue on to
Waterton Lakes national Park.
A 30-minute drive east on Highway 3 will bring you to the City of
Lethbridge, where you can visit sites such as Fort Whoop-Up, Galt
Museum, Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden, Helen Schuler Coulee Centre,
Southern Alberta Art Gallery and Bowman Arts Centre. Southwestern
Alberta is indeed rich in tourism attractions, and Fort Macleod is
your gateway to adventure. |
