Southeast Calgary communities
The southeast is one part of Calgary's address grid, but its communities span different eras, housing patterns and connections to parks, employment and transit. Compare the guides below.
Acadia
A 1960 southeast community built by Kelwood around curving streets, with its own community-built curling rink and pool and Red Line access from Heritage Station.
Explore Acadia →Albert Park/Radisson Heights
A 1910 inner-city community built around 17 Avenue SE's International Avenue, with a fake streetcar scheme in its origin story and its own CTrain station since 1985.
Explore Albert Park/Radisson Heights →
Applewood Park
A 1982 southeast community boxed in by Stoney Trail and 17 Avenue SE, with East Hills retail immediately across the ring road.
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Auburn Bay
A 43-acre lake with a 13-acre beach park, and a major hospital and huge YMCA immediately south.
Explore Auburn Bay →
Belvedere
Approved in 2013 and under construction since 2020, built beside the East Hills retail centre on Calgary's far southeast edge.
Explore Belvedere →Bonavista Downs
A small 1973 southeast community next to Lake Bonavista, sharing its neighbour's name and street-naming convention but none of its private lake.
Explore Bonavista Downs →
Chaparral
A 32-acre lake and a 21-acre park with two waterfalls, with the Bow River valley as the eastern edge.
Explore Chaparral →Copperfield
A 2002 Hopewell-built community of 14,095 residents organized around three stormwater ponds rather than a private lake, boxed in by 52 Street SE and Stoney Trail.
Explore Copperfield →
Cranston
One of Calgary's largest communities, built since 1999 along the Bow River and Fish Creek Provincial Park, with its own residents-only Century Hall.
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Deer Ridge
A 1978 escarpment community above the Bow River, with Fish Creek Provincial Park as its eastern boundary and a slowly aging, fully built-out population.
Explore Deer Ridge →Deer Run
A 1978 community wrapped by Fish Creek Provincial Park on two sides, with its own community centre and Sikome Lake a short drive south.
Explore Deer Run →Diamond Cove
One of Calgary's smallest communities — a single-entrance estate enclave of cul-de-sacs on the escarpment above Fish Creek Provincial Park and the Bow River.
Explore Diamond Cove →Douglasdale/Glen
A 1986 southeast community on the Bow River, built around Douglasdale, Douglas Glen and the redeveloped Quarry Park gravel pit.
Explore Douglasdale/Glen →Dover
A 1971 inner-southeast community built around Valleyview Regional Park, with one of Calgary's higher rental shares.
Explore Dover →Erin Woods
A 1981 southeast community hemmed in by the CN railway on two sides, minutes from Forest Lawn's International Avenue and Elliston Park.
Explore Erin Woods →
Fairview
A 1959 bungalow community on Macleod Trail, immediately south of Chinook Centre and on Heritage Park's northern approach.
Explore Fairview →
Foothills
A 7.6 km² City of Calgary industrial district in the southeast, not a residential neighbourhood, with no population recorded in the City's own 2021 census dataset.
Explore Foothills →Forest Heights
A 1959 inner-southeast community on Memorial Drive, immediately north of Forest Lawn and its International Avenue.
Explore Forest Heights →Forest Lawn
A former town annexed by Calgary in 1961, and the historic core of the multicultural 17 Avenue SE International Avenue corridor.
Explore Forest Lawn →Hotchkiss
A far-southeast community approved in 2013, named for Harley Hotchkiss — one dwelling and no residents at the last civic census, still building out today.
Explore Hotchkiss →Inglewood
Calgary's oldest neighbourhood, founded in 1875 at the Bow-Elbow confluence, built around the historic 9th Avenue SE main street.
Explore Inglewood →
Lake Bonavista
The first community in Canada built around a man-made lake — and it has two, at 52 and 35 acres.
Explore Lake Bonavista →Legacy
A 900-acre master-planned community building out since 2011 against a 300-acre environmental reserve and the Bow River escarpment, at the literal southern edge of the city.
Explore Legacy →Mahogany
Calgary's largest lake at 63 acres, a 74-acre wetland, and a hospital and huge YMCA minutes away.
Explore Mahogany →Maple Ridge
A 1966 community on the escarpment above the Bow River valley, wrapped by its own public golf course, directly across Anderson Road from Lake Bonavista but with no rights to its lake.
Explore Maple Ridge →
McKenzie Lake
A 43-acre lake with an island at its centre, and Fish Creek Park along the entire western edge.
Explore McKenzie Lake →McKenzie Towne
A 1995 New Urbanist master-planned community built around its own High Street main-street retail district, not a regional mall.
Explore McKenzie Towne →
Midnapore
A pioneer hamlet that Calgary grew around — annexed in 1961, built out around a hand-dug 30-acre lake.
Explore Midnapore →New Brighton
A 2001 community built around its own residents-only clubhouse, splash park and outdoor rink, wedged between McKenzie Towne and Copperfield.
Explore New Brighton →Ogden
A 1912 CPR company town in southeast Calgary, built around the Ogden Shops rail yards on the Bow River, now home to CPKC's headquarters and a Green Line station under construction.
Explore Ogden →
Parkland
A 1974 community backing onto Fish Creek Provincial Park on two sides, next to Lake Bonavista but with no lake of its own.
Explore Parkland →Penbrooke Meadows
A 1969 community on the International Avenue corridor, annexed with Forest Lawn in 1961 and one of Calgary's most diverse.
Explore Penbrooke Meadows →Queensland
A 1973 southeast community wedged between the Bow River and Fish Creek Provincial Park, immediately south of Diamond Cove.
Explore Queensland →
Ramsay
A dense 1914 inner-city community on the Bow-Elbow confluence, with Scotsman's Hill's view of the Stampede grounds as its defining feature.
Explore Ramsay →Rangeview
Calgary's first agrihood — a 320-acre garden-to-table community on the far southeast edge, about 2,500 residents in against a 15-to-20-year plan for 23,400.
Explore Rangeview →
Red Carpet
A 1969 community of 0.6 km² built almost entirely around a mobile-home park, tucked between the CN tracks and 17 Avenue SE with Elliston Park on its doorstep.
Explore Red Carpet →Riverbend
A 1982 community wrapped by a bend in the Bow River, with Carburn Park's ponds on one side and its own business park on the other.
Explore Riverbend →Seton
A 2018 urban district built around the 642-bed South Health Campus and the world's largest YMCA, at the end of Deerfoot Trail in the deep southeast.
Explore Seton →Southview
A 1.6 km² community established in 1950, the last to develop inside the Greater Forest Lawn area, with the Bow River as its own western boundary.
Explore Southview →
Sundance
Master-planned from 1982 around a 33-acre lake, with Fish Creek Provincial Park wrapping two edges.
Explore Sundance →Walden
A community approved in 2007 and built almost entirely since 2011 along Macleod Trail at Calgary's southern edge, next to Legacy, with its own retail cluster and no school yet inside its own boundary.
Explore Walden →Willow Park
A 1965 community bisected by its own private golf course, with Southcentre Mall and an Anderson CTrain station at its own southwest corner.
Explore Willow Park →Wolf Willow
A brand-new WestCreek community on the Bow River south of Chaparral and Walden — presales began in 2018, and it is still being built out today.
Explore Wolf Willow →