Walking Along the North Saskatchewan River

July 23 , 2008

After returning from Elk Island National Park, we took a trip to the West Edmonton Mall because Brenda wanted to see it. It is reputedly the second largest mall in the world and contained three amusement parks as well as a bewildering array of hundreds of shops. Brenda poked around a bit while Rod read. The only thing we bought was a cup of coffee at McDonalds and some ice cream from Baskin Robbins.

Getting to the Mall required navigating north across the North Saskatchewan River and then down on the west side of the river as it curved south. On the way back we crossed the highrise bridge to get back to the University of Alberta campus, and we say a lot of people walking and biking across the bridge. We decided to walk across it, but spent 20 minutes trying to find a parking place on the campus or near the river without success. So we went back to our hotel to park and walked from there.

We walked north from there and got on the bicycle/pedestrian trail along the river. But our wanderings took us down and we found ourselves looking way up at the bridge we had intended to walk across.

We got a good view of the legislative building and downtown Edmonton across the park. We found that there was a pedestrian bridge under the rail bridge so we crossed the North Saskatchewan River on it.