Laycock Park — Attraction in Calgary

Laycock Park is located along Nose Creek, south of 64 Avenue N.E., in the communities of Thorncliffe and Skyline West. There is a parking lot at the north side of 6 Street N.E. with a bridge over Nose Creek connecting the east and west sides of the park. The Nose Creek pathway system travels through the park and makes up part of the Trans Canada Trail network. It has playgrounds, ball diamonds, green area, benches, shelters, and off leash areas.

Laycock Park was named in honour of the Laycock family who pioneered agriculture in the Calgary area when Alberta was still part of the Northwest Territories. In the early 1900s, a piece the park was farmed by Thomas Laycock and his family. Thomas was involved in the dairy cattle industry and became a director of the Calgary Exhibition (eventually renamed to the Calgary Stampede). Laycock Park was built with funds from the Thorncliffe/Greenview community, and subsidies from the City of Calgary and the Provincial Government. The size of this park is 11 hectares and is open from...

At the time of our visit (April 2021) it was very clean and spacious in a sense where there weren’t a lot of people (covid times is a factor I’m sure) but thoroughly enjoyed the double swing with an infant. Our son loved it and it fitted him perfect (11 months) he also loves going down the big slides supervised and supported of course. The parking lot (end of an industrial street) for the playground was slightly of a distance though but on a nice day was an enjoyable walk. There’s also a basketball court by the parking lot. There’s also picnic area that is covered by a roof, great for shade. There’s also a dog park area somewhere cause we kept seeing little four legged...

The park name makes me giggle but all jokes aside this is one of my most favourite spots in all of Calgary! The number of life changing moments I've had here are really profound. I go there to shake off my day and connect with nature in what ways I can. The lil bit or trees in the lower areas make for a sweet lil forest bush place to walk dogs. The play structures are pretty new and fun for lil ones (covid willing!) Theres even a shaded spot for picnics.

All in all, it's small but mighty and a nice time...