Goose and Bear Hill Park is a community lead initiative to transform the forgotten, underutilized, remanent green space in the Crescent Heights into a place that contributes positively to the community by increasing social amenity space and ecological biodiversity.

Through public engagement with the community the current conceptual design integrates enhanced pedestrian circulation, accessibility, passive recreation, opportunities for observation, and connection to ecology.  Improvements to pedestrian movement include activating and brightening up the existing staircase, while also providing a bike channel to easily wheel bikes up the stairs. A secondary, aggregate pedestrian path meanders through the site connecting users to Edmonton Trail through a naturalized area incorporating seating nodes, native plantings, pollinator plantings and beehives. A living green wall helps manage steep grades and provides opportunities to integrate seating and social spaces situated to take advantage of the sweeping panoramic views. Additionally public amenity space can expand into the adjacent cul-de-sac through tactile urbanism gestures.

Location: Goose and Bear Hill Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Partners: Crescent Heights Community Association / The City of Calgary