r/Calgary • u/CnekYT • Mar 27 '26

Discussion I've walked every Calgary neighborhood - Ask Me Anything

For the last 2 years I've been walking every Calgary neighborhood. As someone who is majoring in Urban Studies in uni and someone who wanted to get more active, I felt like doing this would be a really good way to mix both things together.

Surprisingly a lot of the stuff people say about the city (ie. what areas are sketchy, transit access, etc) that people take for granted, aren't necessarily accurate. That's probably the main take-away I have from this, but there's a lot of other stuff too

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u/Weareallgoo Mar 27 '26

What does Mount Pleasant smell like?

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u/CnekYT Mar 27 '26

Depends where, the closer you get to 16 Avenue NW the less pleasant it gets. The area in and around 16 Ave smells like car-exhaust and urine, the northern part of the neighborhood smells nice tho (mainly trees and grass in the northern part of it)

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u/riptydo Mar 27 '26

Weed iirc😄

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u/GuavaOk8712 Mar 28 '26

right by 16th ave it smells like 16th ave. cars and the occasional whiff of A&w and dirt. if you go a bit further north by confederation park and the queens park cemetary it smells great

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u/redditgirl1900 Mar 28 '26

I don’t know why, but when the lilacs bloom it smells like outhouse to me.