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 we have placed these
100 caches in 100 parks around Calgary.
Twelve-mile Coulee Park is in the extreme northwest corner of
the city and was established in 2001. The coulee and nearby road
were originally named because they were about 12 miles from the
post office in Fort Calgary and served as a mail drop on the old
stagecoach run to Cochrane.
The dominant land form is the coulee itself, which slopes
southerly toward the Bow River. Along the eastern slope there are
sandstone outcrops which are part of the "Porcupine Hills
Formation" of bedrock that underlies the entire city. Toward the
south end of the coulee, a large outcropping of bedrock is one of
the best and most accessible examples of this formation in the
city.
Archaeological artefacts, including a 2000 year-old stone circle or
tipi ring, indicate that Aboriginal people had been using the park
area for hunting and camping for at least 8000 years. Since the
1800's, European settlers used the area for farming and
ranching.