Calgary Parks 100 Project, celebrating Calgary Parks 100th
Anniversary!
Calgary Area Cachers teaming up with The City of Calgary Parks
Dept.
The Calgary Parks 100 Project is a partnership between the City
of Calgary Parks, and the Calgary Area Cachers to celebrate Calgary
Parks 100th anniversary. Calgary Parks has supplied cache
containers and swag for 100 caches, and the CAC has placed these
100 caches in 100 parks around Calgary.
Beaverdam Flats Park lies along the eastern bank of the Bow
River in the southeast part of the city. The park was created in
the early 1980s and occupies about 43 hectares. The name is
derived, as you might guess, from the fact that there were beaver
dams down on the flats.
The park includes a section of the escarpment but most of the area
is on the flats. The flats are gravel deposits on an outer curve of
the river. Consequently the shape of the park is constantly
changing as some areas are washed away and others built up.
Prior to becoming parkland, the flats were owned by various large
land-owners although there is no evidence of major human activities
or settlement in the area. But, there is an interesting structure
called a "sappers bridge" built in 1992 by military field
engineers, otherwise known as sappers.