Car rental Canada for a trip to Calgary

Calgary is a vibrant, cosmopolitan city but with an outstanding thirst for outdoor adventure, it’s no wonder that nearly 5 million visitors come every year. Hire a car for your journey!

You will find a wealth of cultural attractions, restaurants with award-winning cuisine, parks, speciality shops, and trendy night spots, all in the heart of the city. You can enjoy the city year round due to the moderate climate and blue skies, and beckons enthusiasts of golf, hiking, fishing, mountain biking, skiing or dog sledding. Calgary is the only province in Canada with no provincial sales tax, which makes their shopping centres even more inviting; and just off from there, you will find the parks of Calgary offer some of the finest natural areas and scenery in Canada and North America. We would recommend hiring a car to enable you to have the freedom the natural beauty just outside Calgary. There is a rich culture in Calgary blossoming in all parts from great live entertainment all year round; from opera, ballet, the philharmonic orchestra, and music to the modern cutting edge of dance and theatre. In the downtown area of Calgary you will find the modern architecture complimented by the historical sandstone buildings from almost a century ago.

Calgary's history

The oil bonanza of the 1970’s enabled Calgary’s downtown skyscrapers to literally soar overnight. Calgary is a likeable and booming place for fun and business. There is the prestigious Glenbow Museum in the heart of Calgary which should not be missed. Also infamous for its annual Calgary Stampede, a popular cowboy carnival in which the whole community of the town and many tourists gather together in a boots-and-stetson image, that is still very much the way of life in the surrounding cattle country.

Fort Calgary is another infamous landmark to this incredible town, built in less than six weeks by the North West Mounted Police in 1875, and from that date remained in operation as a police post until 1914 when it was sold to the Canadian Pacific Railway. Period photographs show just how wild life used to be like in Calgary back in 1876. Close to the site of the Fort is the Deane House Historic Site and Restaurant, built in 1906 by Mountie supreme Superintendent Richard Deane. It used to be used as a boarding house and a stationmaster’s house.

• The largest city in Alberta, Calgary is 80km east of the front ranges of the rockies
• Calgary is a key winter sport destination
• A variety of major mountain resorts near Calgary's city and metropolitan area
• Approximately 1 million people live in Calgary
• A corporate power center
• Traditionally conservative
• Calgary's economy is dominated by the oil and gas industry, although recently the economy has begun to diversify
• Calgary is a great place for driving, and a great place to rent a car!

 

Book your car hire with Freeway Car Rental for Calgary, Canada.