Southwest Calgary communities
The southwest 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.
Alpine Park
Calgary's newest master-planned community — 476 acres on the ring road, built to a walkable eight-minute plan.
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Altadore
A 1945 community that became one of Calgary's most in-demand inner-city addresses, with River Park on its edge.
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Aspen Woods
Calgary's westernmost SW community — acreages and estate infill against Stoney Trail, with Aspen Landing as its own commercial village.
Explore Aspen Woods →Bankview
0.7 km² of walk-up apartments on the hill above 17th Avenue — Calgary's densest inner-city community.
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Bayview
A 1967 Alcan-built peninsula on Glenmore Reservoir — all single-family, zero rental, Calgary's highest income community by the last count.
Explore Bayview →Bel-Aire
0.36 km² of single-detached homes on the Elbow River, all of it owner-occupied.
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Braeside
1965 bungalows between two Red Line stations and the city's biggest leisure centre.
Explore Braeside →Bridlewood
A 1997 subdivision at the city's southern edge, Spruce Meadows on one side, a wetland on the other.
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Britannia
Half a square kilometre of 1956 streets between the Elbow River and Elbow Drive, five minutes from Chinook Centre.
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Canyon Meadows
A 1965 community on Fish Creek Provincial Park's northern edge, with its own CTrain station and golf course.
Explore Canyon Meadows →Cedarbrae
A 1973 community on Tsuut'ina Trail, with Southland Leisure Centre on its own doorstep.
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Chinook Park
A 1959 pocket wedged between Glenmore Trail and Rockyview General Hospital, with the reservoir and Heritage Park a few minutes south.
Explore Chinook Park →Christie Park
A 0.8 km² pocket on the escarpment above Sarcee Trail, established in 1990 and still one of the smallest communities in the southwest.
Explore Christie Park →Cliff Bungalow
A 0.4 km² pocket of condo towers and 1900s walk-ups squeezed between Uptown 17th Avenue's restaurant strip and the Elbow River escarpment, renamed from a numbered lot in the 1970s.
Explore Cliff Bungalow →Coach Hill
A 1979 hillside community at the western end of the Blue Line, with more condominiums and townhouses than any of its escarpment neighbours and a quarter of residents over 65.
Explore Coach Hill →Cougar Ridge
A 2001 community wedged directly below Canada Olympic Park and the Paskapoo Slopes escarpment, with the Trans-Canada running along its own boundary toward the mountains.
Explore Cougar Ridge →Crestmont
The city's far southwest edge, cut off from the rest of Calgary by the Trans-Canada Highway, with Rocky View County's open land on two sides and a single bus route.
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Currie Barracks
A 1934 militia base rebuilt since 2010 as a dense new community, with ten heritage buildings and Mount Royal University on its doorstep.
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Discovery Ridge
A 1990s community reached by a single road, wedged between Griffith Woods' 93-hectare Elbow River forest and the Tsuu T'ina First Nation boundary.
Explore Discovery Ridge →Eagle Ridge
A 0.4 km² peninsula in the Glenmore Reservoir, ringed on three sides by water, and one of Calgary's wealthiest addresses.
Explore Eagle Ridge →Elbow Park
One of Calgary's oldest and wealthiest riverside communities, built after 1910 along the Elbow's west bank, with the Glencoe Club on its doorstep and a real flood history.
Explore Elbow Park →Elboya
A 1947 farmland-turned-inner-city pocket on the Elbow River, bordering Stanley Park, split across two schools by a 2025 redesignation.
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Erlton
A 1910 railway subdivision turned condo enclave on a bend of the Elbow, wedged between the Stampede Grounds and Macleod Trail, and now the highest-income small community on this site.
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Evergreen
A 1999 community split by Fish Creek Boulevard, backing directly onto Fish Creek Provincial Park across nearly its whole northern edge.
Explore Evergreen →Garrison Green
The smallest and densest of the three former CFB Calgary communities, built around a peacekeepers' memorial beside Mount Royal University.
Explore Garrison Green →Garrison Woods
The former married-quarters half of CFB Calgary, rebuilt since 1998 with World War I battle-honour street names and Marda Loop on its doorstep.
Explore Garrison Woods →Glamorgan
A 1958 community named for a dairy farm, sitting directly across Glenmore Trail from Mount Royal University, with 38% of its households living alone.
Explore Glamorgan →Glenbrook
A 1958 community on Richmond Road where nearly half the households rent, shaped as much by Mount Royal University's student market as by its original bungalows.
Explore Glenbrook →Glendale
A 1955 bungalow community built around Optimist Athletic Park, with the oldest housing stock and the lowest rental share of the three communities on this belt.
Explore Glendale →Haysboro
A 1958 community on Harry Hays's old dairy farm, bisected by Elbow Drive and bordering the Glenmore Reservoir.
Explore Haysboro →Kelvin Grove
A 1957 community with Rockyview General Hospital immediately across 14 Street and Henry Wise Wood High School on its own southern edge.
Explore Kelvin Grove →Killarney/Glengarry
A 1906 bungalow grid rebuilding lot by lot since 2002, with the West LRT's Westbrook Station on its own doorstep and a long-vacant redevelopment site next door.
Explore Killarney/Glengarry →Kingsland
A 1957 community pressed against Chinook Centre and Macleod Trail, where more than half the buildings are now condos or apartments.
Explore Kingsland →Lakeview
A 1962 community boxed in by Crowchild Trail and the Tsuut'ina Nation reserve, with the city's canoe and rowing clubs on its own reservoir shore.
Explore Lakeview →Lincoln Park
A 1.5 km² pocket built on a WWII airfield, now almost entirely Mount Royal University's campus and its surrounding rental apartments.
Explore Lincoln Park →Lower Mount Royal
A 1907 CPR subdivision squeezed onto 0.3 square kilometres below the Upper Mount Royal escarpment, now Calgary's densest walk-up rental pocket.
Explore Lower Mount Royal →Manchester
A 1914 workers' district squeezed onto 0.5 km² between Macleod Trail and Manchester Industrial, with only 950 residents left and 93% of them renting.
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Marda Loop
A 200-plus-business shopping district on 33 and 34 Avenues SW, not a City of Calgary community — every address here sits in South Calgary, Altadore or Garrison Woods.
Explore Marda Loop →Mayfair
0.3 km² of single-detached homes on Glenmore Reservoir's eastern shore, 100% owner-occupied and Calgary's highest-income community.
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Meadowlark Park
A 0.7 km² pocket of 1955 crescents wedged against Chinook Centre's western wall, pinched between Macleod Trail and Glenmore Trail.
Explore Meadowlark Park →Millrise
A compact 1982 community south of Fish Creek Provincial Park, built around its own Sobeys-anchored plaza and the Fish Creek–Lacombe CTrain platform.
Explore Millrise →Mission
A 0.53 km² former French mission village on the Elbow River, now Calgary's densest small community, where 4th Street SW's restaurant strip is effectively the neighbourhood's front yard.
Explore Mission →North Glenmore Park
A 1959 subdivision squeezed between Earl Grey Golf Club and the Glenmore Reservoir, with almost none of its own street-level commercial space.
Explore North Glenmore Park →Oakridge
A 1968 escarpment community on the Glenmore Reservoir's south shore, built around its own Co-op and a public school running two city-wide programmes.
Explore Oakridge →Palliser
A 1967 community on the Glenmore Reservoir's south shore where 44% of homes are rented, well above the city average.
Explore Palliser →Patterson
A 1983 escarpment community built on the site of the 1988 Winter Olympics' broadcast village, with the highest rental rate of Calgary's four western hillside communities.
Explore Patterson →Pump Hill
Calgary's smallest estate pocket, on the Glenmore Reservoir's south shore, named for the windmill that once pumped water for a market garden.
Explore Pump Hill →Richmond
A 1950 bungalow community split by Crowchild Trail, now watching a former high school site rezone for up to 1,500 homes on its own doorstep.
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Rideau Park
A 0.3 km² pocket wrapped on three sides by a bend in the Elbow River, established in 1911, with a quarter of homes renting and Lindsay's sandstone ruin on the escarpment.
Explore Rideau Park →Rosscarrock
A 1954 community squeezed between the West LRT and Shaganappi Point golf course, where apartments now outnumber the original bungalows.
Explore Rosscarrock →Roxboro
A 0.3 km² pocket wrapped by a bend in the Elbow River, established in 1923, with zero rental housing and a real flood history behind the wealth.
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Rutland Park
A 0.9 km² pocket on former Currie Barracks land where two in three households rent, and the community's own school building is currently leased to a private academy.
Explore Rutland Park →Scarboro
A 1910 Olmsted-designed garden suburb of curving streets and triangular parkettes on 0.5 square kilometres, bisected by Crowchild Trail since 1964.
Explore Scarboro →Shaganappi
A 1949 community wrapped around Calgary's second-oldest municipal golf course, with its own West LRT stop on Bow Trail.
Explore Shaganappi →Shawnee Slopes
A 1986 golf-course community whose fairways became Shawnee Park, roughly 1,400 new homes built since 2014.
Explore Shawnee Slopes →Shawnessy
A 1981 community built on the old McInnes homestead, its 1915 barn still standing as the community centre beside the district's big-box retail.
Explore Shawnessy →Signal Hill
A 1986 hillside community whose escarpment carries the Battalion Park numerals — 16,000 stones spelling out four First World War battalion numbers.
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Silverado
A 2000s community south of Stoney Trail, built against a city-mandated wetland buffer with Spruce Meadows on the other side.
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Somerset
A 1995 community at the literal end of the Red Line, with Spruce Meadows just across Stoney Trail to the south.
Explore Somerset →South Calgary
A 0.9 km² pocket that sat vacant for decades, now split exactly 50/50 between owners and renters, with Marda Loop's northern half along its own southern edge.
Explore South Calgary →Southwood
A 1960 community built where the Corral Drive-in used to run, bracketed by two CTrain stations on the original South Line.
Explore Southwood →Springbank Hill
Calgary's largest southwest edge community, running from LRT-side condos near 69 Street down to gated acreage estates in The Slopes, and still filling in on its southern lots.
Explore Springbank Hill →Spruce Cliff
A 1950 apartment-heavy community wedged between the Bow River escarpment and Shaganappi's golf course, with Westbrook LRT a short walk southeast.
Explore Spruce Cliff →Strathcona Park
A 1980 family community wrapped around its own 23-hectare ravine park, with the lowest rental rate and the largest population of the escarpment's four hillside communities.
Explore Strathcona Park →Sunalta
A 1910 CPR grid of 25-foot lots that became the West LRT's first stop out of downtown, now Calgary's most rented inner-city address.
Explore Sunalta →Upper Mount Royal
1.3 square kilometres of large-lot estates above the Cameron and Royal Avenue escarpment, established in 1904 as Calgary's original elite hillside subdivision.
Explore Upper Mount Royal →West Springs
A 2001 community of new detached houses west of Sarcee, with three private and international schools nearby and the Blue Line's 69 Street terminus a drive, not a walk, away.
Explore West Springs →Westgate
A 1957 bungalow community pinned between Edworthy Park's ravine and Sarcee Trail, where 58% of the housing predates 1961 and almost nobody rents.
Explore Westgate →Wildwood
A 1950s bungalow community backing directly onto Edworthy Park and the Douglas Fir Trail, with the lowest rental rate and the highest income of the escarpment's four hillside communities.
Explore Wildwood →Windsor Park
A 1940 riverside pocket beside the Calgary Golf & Country Club, now 63% rental and dominated by apartment towers.
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Woodbine
A 1979 community built directly against Fish Creek Provincial Park's northern edge, with the lowest rental share of any community in this corner of the city.
Explore Woodbine →Woodlands
A 1976 community against Fish Creek Provincial Park, where the Canyon Meadows Golf & Country Club sits entirely inside its own boundary.
Explore Woodlands →Yorkville
Calgary's newest southwest community, still filling in past Stoney Trail, with Central Park and its skate park open since 2023.
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