Start from 54 curated places around Edmonton, CA, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Corso 32
Daniel Costa's tiny Jasper Avenue room that essentially defined modern Edmonton dining, with handmade pasta and a tight northern-Italian menu. Still the city's hardest-to-book and most-loved tasting-style table.
Bar Bricco
Costa's snug Italian aperitivo bar next door to Corso 32, built around cicchetti, fresh ricotta, and amaro on tap. It takes no reservations, which is exactly the point.
Trails & outdoors
Mill Creek Ravine Park
A wooded ravine cutting north-south through south Edmonton, with a 10 km multi-use trail that locals run, bike, and walk year-round. The wooden trestle bridges are the signature.
William Hawrelak Park
The river valley's central festival park, with a lake, paved perimeter path, modernized pavilion, and tree-shaded picnic grounds beside the river. The city's go-to summer park, back to full use after a major rehabilitation.
Things to do
Telus World of Science
Edmonton's flagship science centre and IMAX theatre in Coronation Park, with the Zeidler Dome planetarium and a strong rotating exhibit calendar. Easy half-day for families and a winter lifesaver.
Citadel Theatre
Canada's largest non-profit theatre complex, five stages under one downtown roof attached to a public glass-roofed indoor garden. The country's main Anglo-Canadian regional theatre west of Stratford.
Landmarks & sights
Alberta Legislature Building
Alberta's 1912 Beaux-Arts capitol building above the river valley, fronted by fountains and reflecting pools that double as a wading rink in winter. The interior tours are free and the grounds are one of downtown's prettiest walks.
Muttart Conservatory
Four glass pyramids on the south bank of the North Saskatchewan, each a different climate, with the downtown skyline framed behind them. It's Edmonton's most photographed landmark and a welcome dose of green in winter.