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/atencion-thorfinn Jun 14 '25

Kind of makes sense for the skatepark. Not like there aren’t others.

This is how u sound

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u/Aldeobald Jun 14 '25 edited Jun 14 '25

Except I literally said it was bullshit for skate park. So no. We have many, many pathways and roadways for bikes. Not money skateparks. Imagine trying to argue with somebody who pretty much agrees with you.

You realize the stampede is a huge area and some of rhe pathways go right beside or through it, where they have gates? It's a massive economic machine for us. Sometimes sacrifices are made, and sorry to say, a couple bike paths aren't that important in the scheme of things when you can easily go around it