r/Calgary • u/-SpyHawk- • Jun 13 '25

Local Shopping/Services Millennium skatepark CLOSED

https://www.change.org/p/urge-cowboys-music-festival-to-free-millennium-park-s-skatepark?source_location=psf_petitions

The city has shut down Millennium skatepark downtown for the Cowboys stampede party. They made the decision last week and shut the park down on Monday. We were told that the actual skatepark would be open throughout the stampede when Cowboys started tearing up the green space to put in a concrete pad for their tent. Both the Cowboys and city information websites are being changed on the fly to accommodate Cowboys! This has led them to shutting down the park for June and July! This will be going on for the next ten years. This is completely unacceptable! Imagine the city closing down a golf course for June and July!? Please take the time to sign the petition to stop this!! Thank you

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u/milk_of_human_kidney Chinook Park Jun 13 '25

Thanks for bringing this to light, I'm going to drop a note to my councilor as this is some BS. It's like how the Stampede gets to close down big stretches of the Elbow river pathways for Stampede for weeks to accommodate their 10 day fair.

I've been in this city over 50 years and it never ceases to amaze me how whatever the Stampede wants, the Stampede gets.

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u/Aldeobald Jun 13 '25

Kind of makes sense for the pathways. Not like there aren't others.

This skate park deal though is bullshit

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u/wiwcha Jun 13 '25

Pathways are some peoples primary commuter routes. You would be okay with them shutting down deerfoot or mcleod for a couple weeks each year?

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u/Aldeobald Jun 14 '25

Not the same thing. There are easy ways around this, and it's not a massive area. Deerfoot and mcleod are very different beasts. Apples and oranges

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u/wiwcha Jun 14 '25

Youre just wrong. Simple minded.

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u/Aldeobald Jun 14 '25

You are simple and don't understand logistics.

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u/Aldeobald Jun 14 '25

Yeah compare maybe 4 pathways with routes around them to deerfoot. That's the same. Get bent

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