Ogden Refinery Park - Parks 100 Traditional Cache
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Ogden Refinery Park - Parks 100
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Calgary Parks 100 Project - Ogden Refinery Park
Calgary Area Cachers teaming up with The City of Calgary Parks
Celebrating Calgary Parks 100th Anniversary
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. These caches have some cool swag and trackables when placed, so make sure to find them as soon as they are published.
Imperial Oil established its major Calgary oil refinery on this site, beginning in 1923. It processed petroleum mainly sourced in southern Alberta, including specialized products like jet fuel through the 1940s. After operations ceased the refinery land remained seriously contaminated leaving further use of the site highly limited and uncertain.
The history of the refinery site as park land began with the purchase by the City of Calgary of the entire holding to acquire land needed for the Deerfoot Trail - 50th Avenue interchange. Various uses of the land were considered and one of these was the experimental greenhouse operation in the shape of a wheel, the fenced remains of which are still visible in the southern portion of the site.
The former refinery site is in an important position adjoining the Bow River. In the mid 1990s the Calgary Urban Parks Master Plan, which was directed to land along the rivers, proposed that the site be reclaimed as a wilderness park. In the reclamation process the land was surfaced with fresh soil and planted with naturalized grasses. Along with an access roadway, parking and visitor furnishings, trails were built to connect regional paths with those along the river.
The Cache
The cache site lies above a remnant to the west and toward the river, of the water intake canal for the former refinery.
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