About Cougar Ridge Calgary

Cougar Ridge is one of Calgary's newest residential communities and it is waiting for you to explore.

Its first show homes were built in 2001 and from that point on this community has quickly grown. People are drawn here because of the natural beauty of the area, quick access to downtown, quality schools and proximity to the Rocky Mountains just 45 minutes to the west.


The boundaries of the community are Canada Olympic Park on the north; 69 Street S.W. on the East, Old Banff Coach Road on the south and 101 Street on the west.

The Calgary French and International School (CFIS) has opened their $12 million campus in Cougar Ridge. The accredited, non-profit school will offer programming for students from pre-school to Grade 9. CFIS recently announced that the provincial government had awarded it a grant of $125,000 to complete a gymnasium in the school. That gym will also be made available to residents of Cougar Ridge and other nearby communities. A Waldorf School also operates in the community offering programming for children from kindergarten to Grade 12.

In addition to the growing number of schools found in Cougar Ridge there are also excellent outdoor recreation opportunities for every member of the community. Literally in the back yard of Cougar Ridge is COP and its ski jumps which are functional landmarks left behind from the 1988 Winter Olympics.
COP operates year-round which may come as a surprise to those who still consider it strictly a winter sport facility. For example, COP has 25-kilometres of professionally managed trails for mountain bikers. Other summer activities at the park include beach volleyball and baseball on the four available diamonds.
For those who want a more genteel form of recreation there is an ever-expanding pathway system in Cougar Ridge. The trails highlight a large 45-acre park and a wet lands area that has been preserved in an effort to support the diverse plant life and bird species that are found here.

Cougar Ridge continues to attract a lot of interest because of its natural beauty and growing number of amenities and that makes it a community worth visiting.

The History of Cougar Ridge Calgary

The Paskapoo Slopes, an integral part of the Cougar Ridge Community, is a unique area with significant ecological and historical resources. A base line archaeological inventory and assessment was carried out in May and June 1997 of Precontact Native Archaeological Sites in the East Paskapoo Slopes and adjacent areas.

In total, there are now 49 significant sites identified, including a number of campsites, killsites, sweat pits and others. Bison were not only driven into corrals along the uppermost slopes below the escarpment; they were also driven and trapped at lower levels along the slopes. The result is a series of kill/processing camps extending down the slopes. Similar complexities in moving herds to specific sites have been documented at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump west of Ft. Macleod. The pattern is similar in kind and intensity to that found associated with large bison kills/processing camps along the Porcupine Hills. The main differences observed at the Paskapoo Slopes is primarily that the bison driving and processing is spread out laterally and vertically along the slopes and, although intensive, it is spread over 2 km of slope. Stacked together, the layers of artifacts would no doubt represent the intensity found in the deep bone beds and campsites deposits at jumps and camps such as that of Old Woman's Buffalo Jump.

During the fall of 2000, an extensive archaeological study was performed on the significant sites located along the storm and sanitary utility corridor for the Cougar Ridge Community. This trunk now runs down the Paskapoo Slopes. Before it was installed, these digs were completed.

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