This place is huge and great facilities for this community. Been coming here for hockey for the…read morepast 20 years and has changed a great deal for the best. There is a pool, ice rinks, curling rinks, running track, indoor fields for soccer,lacrosse ruby, wall climbing. Store with sport paraphernalia and skate sharpening. Concession with all sorts of yummy food and goodies. Really enjoying coming to this facility. -Plenty of parking with excellent signage to where you have to go to park your vehicle.

I really love this place...... Usually I run outdoors but sometimes when it's -54 with the wind…read morechill I just splurge it's only five dollars and I can work out for over three hours running laps........ and then I do my stretches and abdominals and I'm always surrounded by very very healthy fabulous friendly not obtrusive staff. Plus they even have a little store where I can go shopping for a bath bathing suits on the first floor. You would not believe how massive this location is they also have curling and gymnastics and community centre and a swimming pool And hockey rinks. Pretty brand-new. And beautiful landscaping outside. And they use the parking lot for an amazing Calgary farmers market on the summer weekends. All in all just exactly the perfect place he would want to have in your community. Thank you!

Just had a wonderful time at Camp Kindle!…read more We are a non-profit org who had our 3-day annual retreat there. The dorm was clean, tidy, and had enough room for us. The beds were decently comfortable for camp. No complaints here from a guy with back issues. The facilities were perfect for our meetings and breakouts. The large dining room lodge is excellent, roomy and then some for the 40 of us, and the cooks dished out some good food over the three days. The activities were a lot of fun! Archery, escape room, and high ropes. Although I didn't do the high ropes, I had a lot of fun doing the other two and they were all awesome team-building activities too. Good fun and some good razzing of each other too! There is zero cell service there and the wifi is weak. I'm not saying that's a con at all. It was nice to disconnect actually and just be with the people there. The staff were absolutely amazing. They made it for us! We felt so welcome, encouraged, and they took great care of us. Thank you, Camp Kindle!

Camp is not just for kids.... did you know Camp Kindle is available as a retreat centre? For…read moreweddings or trainings? The summers are jam packed offering a safe place for kids with or affected by cancer but they are open year round and are available for other bookings when the kids aren't there. I was very surprised with how under booked they are too because it's a great space. And all the rental fees go back to helping the camp run in the summer for the kids which is also very awesome (I learned they can do chemo on site if they are in treatment... how wonderful is that for a kid going through cancer?). I got to hang out here for a weekend and it was awesome... even in the middle of winter. I wasn't sure what camp in the winter would be like (I was thinking back to my summers in tipis hoping the heat of the fire would last the night) but it's barely camping as far as accommodations. We stayed in rooms that looked like college dorms in the Jack Perraton Volunteer Lodge which has 2 twin beds per room. Real beds, toasty buildings, flush toilets and running showers... like I said, not quite hotel rooms but not really camping. We ate in the Jayman lodge catered by the staff of Kindle. I'm not sure what options are available for food but we had fairly simple, tasty and healthful meals the whole time and they took care to offer gluten free, vegan and halal options as per the group's needs. There are meeting spaces of all sizes and large event spaces all is fairly modern and renovated buildings. I didn't get to explore all the buildings but it really seems like there are loads of options here for just about anything. I went exploring in the woods and found a very cool old fur trapper like epic log house along with old fashioned stoves and the lot. One of the staff said it's where the teenager level of camp hangs out but it's a fav during weddings for the groomsmen which I totally see because it's remote, beautiful and has such amazing charm for lots of bonding. I didn't get cell service at any point while I was here ... which is either good or bad depending on what you need. I notice they have wifi but I decided to stay unplugged... and I lived! :) They have different activities they can facilitate with groups ... like snowshoeing, hiking or rope courses (not in the winter). The surrounding grounds are beautiful with lots of little critters to meet... we saw a bunch of really chilled out deer and really just a magical place for whatever your looking for and it's extra nice to be able to help support something that has such a beautiful primary mission.

My daughter loves going here every summer with her friends and I've never heard a complaint she…read morejust comes home after 6 days and has like over 15 stories to tell my husband and I , but one thing that you should know is they offer kids to go a a pretty young age so I don't recommend sending you kid / kids if they are younger then 7 or 8 but I do recommend they go to the day camp if they are younger. Other than that Camp Chief hector is a fun place for your kids to go to over summer and gives you time to yourself when they are there

I am a grade 9 student that enrolled in a field trip to camp cheif hector, since this experience…read morewas canceled in 2020 due to COVID this trip was very appealing to many of my peers and I. Unfortunately, we were left appalled at the poor level of sophistication involved with this camp. I would like to begin with the food which was by far the largest issue. Although most of the meals were quite appetizing, if I failed to have 2-3 unholy servings I would end up starving until our next meal. One night an event took place that I found to be completely unacceptable, at around 8:00pm (3 hours after our last meal) some of my classmates became aching with hunger, my teacher then offered them a granola bar when it was taken out of their hands and confiscated by a councillor with very little to no explanation as to why. The sleeping arrangement was exceptionally bad. We were placed in yurts which seemed cool at first, but by the time we went for bed it was freezing, only to find out the last night we were there, there was a knowingly open skylight letting in the brisk temperatures and smoky air that the councillors chose to ignore. The bunk beds were highly concerning, they were extremely wobbly and rickety, had sharp edges and hardly anything keeping the person on the top or bottom bunk from taking a tumble to the ground mid sleep. We were later informed they were crafted in World War Two. Historically? amazing. Stability? Not so much. Overall I'd say my stay at camp cheif hector was incredibly unprofessional and I would advise anyone to skip the 350$ and pay for something worth the money.

We had a 29th birthday gathering for our friend during COVID and we thought it would be a cute and…read morefun idea to bring some goats for a visit! The staff was wonderful to work with, the transaction was super smooth, and communication was great. When the goats came, Farmer Ethan was quick to set up and gave us all plenty of time to pet the goats and play in the pen with them. At the end, he let the birthday girl bottle-feed the baby goat and gave her a birthday gift (a cute, branded hat) which was not expected at all. 10/10 would recommend.

Great place!! It's not just for kids either if you like petting animals. Like tiny cuddly goats.read more

Where do I begin? We had our daughter's 4th birthday party with Horsin Around. Thankfully after my…read more9 emails with the owner Ron Thornhill they finally updated their website after our event. When we were booking on the website it showed an indoor venue with an indoor space to have birthday cake. Several bouncy castles, a foosball table, animals indoors for petting, ponies being ridden indoors etc. We were extremely shocked to find out nothing was indoors at the birthday party and there was nowhere to warm up or heat lamps. This was on October 27th and there was snow outside!! We had planned for an indoor event along with all of the other parents. Nowhere was it listed on the website indicates nowhere that everything would be outside and none of the pictures listed the indoor stuff as the "old location" This would have been extremely useful information given the weather and also I probably wouldn't have booked. With the cold weather and zero information on this being all outside I had a little girl crying and other guests cold. As you can imagine cold toddlers does not make for a happy time. Then I move onto the fact the "petting zoo" This is how it is defined in the Oxford Dictionary: Petting Zoo- a zoo at which visitors, especially children, may handle and feed the animals. There was no petting zoo but rather animals in a pen that the kids hot to reach through a fence to pet those within reach...some petting zoo and again not what was on the website. Highly misleading. Don't worry Ron kindly mentioned to me that they butcher several of the animals after they have served their purpose (which I really didn't need to know) he also said that their new petting zoo was just reaching through bars to touch the animals (if the animals bothered to wonder near in there large outdoor pen.) Then came the family with three kids whom were not our guests and I told them this was a private event of a birthday party and to speak with the staff about when to come back to ride the horses. Well after speaking to the volunteers.... they then proceeded to go on the bouncy castles and pony rides...though I don't recall having random people intrude on a birthday party something that I should be happy about. I am beyond disappointed and this is not at all the birthday party I had planned. I absolutely feel misled. Thanks, Ron for updating your website post our lengthy conversation also thanks for thinking offering a $100 discount to be applied to your summer riding camp, would somehow interest me on wanting to give you more money. Avoid this place at all costs as the owner literally does not care and has zero customer service.

In the same end of town as Spruce Meadows there's a small horse farm/ranch on the edge of the city…read morewhich offers horse and pony camps, riding lessons, three types of birthday parties, and 45-minute long trail rides. I took my family out for a trail ride, and for about $100 the three of us got to enjoy the wonder of horse-back riding again. The last time we went was on a ranch near Canmore for about twice as much money, but we didn't want to travel so far. We'd like to make it more of a regular thing. The weather was initially about 15 degrees, but dropped a touch and started raining a bit on our way back. The single path that wound through a couple fields and up and down some small hills was a little muddy and the horses slipped a little bit. There were 6 of us riders, plus the leader who tried to keep us from wandering off or stopping too long and letting our horses eat the bushes. At the very beginning we received a little tutorial on how to sit and how to steer the horse and make it stop. One of the riders kept pulling back on the reins after the horse stopped and it went backwards in a loop. He wanted that to stop so he pulled back on the reins some more. We were clearly a novice group. I had my helmet on backwards.(Helmets are mandatory for kids, but only recommended for adults.) The horses were lovely animals, trained very well, easy to work with, although mine was a little prone to looking at the tempting empty field and my wife's horse was a bit of a chow hound. The staff were awesome. All summer they offer pony camps for kids 4-7 and horse camps for kids 8 and over. Birthday parties include pony/horse rides, wagon rides, petting zoo, and a barbecue. If you don't want any of that you can get a day pass that gets you all that fun stuff (except the trail rides and lessons). (Also, Google Maps thinks this is in Priddis, but it's not. It's on the edge of Calgary.)