Chinook Tourist Park - Lethbridge, AB
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member T0SHEA
N 49° 40.157 W 112° 48.030
12U E 370083 N 5503418
The Lethbridge Visitor Centre & Chinook Country Rest Area is one of the most complete and well appointed that we have yet to encounter. As a whole, it is operated by the City of Lethbridge as the Chinook Tourist Park.
Waymark Code: WMXVCY
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 03/01/2018
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member veritas vita
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At the intersection of Mayor Magrath Drive and 24th Avenue South/Scenic Drive, the park is easily accessed by both smaller and larger vehicles alike. Mayor Magrath Drive is also Highway 5, one of the major routes through the city.

An extension of the Lethbridge Visitor Centre is the Chinook Country Tourist Park which has something for every traveler and visitor to the area, including a travelers' rest area. Included in the park are picnic tables and shelters, playground, exercise and fitness equipment, informational sign boards about area and history, walking trails, day use area, RV parking, sani dump station, drinking water faucets, free Shaw-go Wi-Fi and huge shade trees to just relax.

Beside the fitness area stands an old wood and steel coal car. It spent its life hauling coal out of one of the several coal mines in the Lethbridge area, part of a train of coal cars which endlessly ran in and out of the mine, hand filled with coal by miners, then dumping its load at a tipple. A main attraction in the park is the World's Largest Wind Gauge, built as a humourous way of dealing with the fact that Lethbridge is Canada's windiest city.
Department Number, Category Name, and Waymark Code:
2-Buildings • Tourist Information Centers - Visitor Centers • Lethbrige Information Visitor Centre • WMXRJ7
8-Monuments • Dedicated Trees • City Cities - Lethbridge • WMXRHG
9-Nature • Municipal Parks and Plazas • Chinook Tourist Park • WMXRMK
10-Oddities • Superlatives • World's Biggest Wind Gauge • WMXR9K
11-Recreation • Public Playgrounds • Chinook Country Rest Area Playground • WMXRKA
13-Structures • Dated Architectural Structures Multifarious • Chinook Country Rest Area - 1985 • WMXRHY
14-Technology • Static Train Cars • Wood sided coal car • WMXRM9


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