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A sixty-acre theme park centred on a reconstructed frontier village 16km southwest of downtown, Heritage Park (tel 259-1900) replicates life in the Canadian West before 1914 and panders relentlessly to the myth of the "Wild West" (mid-May to early Sept daily 9am-5pm; early Sept to mid-Oct weekends and holidays 9am-5pm; $29 admission with rides, $15 without rides; free pancake breakfast with admission 9-10am). Full of family-oriented presentations and original costumes, this "heritage" offering - the largest of its type in Canada - is thorough enough for you never to feel obliged to see another. The living, working museum comprises more than 150 restored buildings , all transported from other small-town locations. Each has been assigned to one of several communities - fur post, native village, homestead, farm and c.1900 - and most fulfil their original function. Thus you can see a working blacksmith, buy fresh bread, buy a local paper, go to church, even get married. Transport, too, is appropriate to the period, including steam trains, trams, horse-drawn bus and stagecoaches. If you're here for the day you can pick up cakes and snacks from the traditional Alberta Bakery, or sit down to a full meal in the old-style Wainwright Hotel . To get there by car, take either Elbow Drive or Macleod Trail south and turn right on Heritage Drive (the turn-off is marked by a huge, maroon steam engine); bus #53 makes the journey from downtown, or you can take the C-Train to Heritage Station and then bus #20 to Northmount.
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