The city of Calgary goes all out once a year to present the “Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth.” You can’t help but have the time of your life at the world famous Calgary Stampede. It’s an awesome spectacle of “How The West Was Won!”

We have guaranteed reserved seating for all Stampede activities including world class rodeo events, world championship chuckwagon races and the Outdoor Grandstand Spectacular. In addition, we have many exciting tours, meals and events planned for you during the rally. The best part is that you can sit back, relax and not worry about a thing as we have made the reservations and done all the planning for you. Chartered buses are at our disposal for the entire stampede to take us on tours and to all the functions so we don’t have to worry about the traffic or driving. This is your vacation, let us do the work. We make reservations a year in advance and stay at an RV park with electric and water hookups (not at a stadium or in an open field with generators and a “Honey Wagon” for dumping).

We are greeted upon arrival by our Rally Wagonmaster and invited to a get acquainted orientation where we are briefed on all the up coming activities. We have made arrangements for a welcome dinner with all the trimmings this evening.

Rally #1 and Rally #2 are the same and include everything except for the following differences: Rally #1 has reserved seating at the Calgary Stampede Parade. Rally #2 has an extra free day and reserved seating for the Rodeo Stampede Finals. It’s your choice, the Stampede Parade or Rodeo Finals.

You’re in for a treat when we visit the top of the revolving Calgary Tower. Here we enjoy the awesome panoramic views of the city below and the Canadian Rockies in the distance. We visit Olympic Park and enjoy an “Olympic Experience” tour plus view the bobsled/luge track. We then enjoy a view of Calgary and the Rocky Mountains on the scenic chair-lift ride to the base of the 90 meter ski jump tower where we can watch athletes training even during the summer. We also visit the Olympic Hall of Fame Museum to enjoy exciting bobsled and ski jump simulators.

One morning we’re off to Rope Square and the Olympic Plaza for breakfast and special entertainment. We see world championship cowboy hat stomping contests, rip roaring street dancing and the Great Western Flapjack Flip. We also visit Devonian Gardens and the Glenbow Museum.

We next head for the Stampede grounds and our reserved covered seating for the most famous rodeo in the world. We see the best of the best saddle up for a ground-shaking showcase of world class rodeo action. See top professionals in the sport take on the untamed fury of the West’s wildest horses in the saddle bronco and bareback riding events and the heart-stopping action of rodeo’s most exciting and dangerous event, bull riding. Add to this the crazy antics of the famous and fearless rodeo clowns, the wild cow milking event and the wild horse race - now you’ve got the recipe for rugged rodeo excitement you will never forget.

The sights! The sounds! The taste! It is everything you remember a great midway to be and then some. Enjoy wild west excitement as we enter Stampede Park. Watch the pig and duck races or walk through an authentic Indian village. Stroll the streets of a recreated frontier town or challenge lady luck at the casino.

Later during the stampede, our bus takes us back to Stampede Park for another exciting Million Dollar Rodeo contest followed by the World Championship Chuckwagon Races. Chuckwagon racing is an amazing contest of nerves and horsepower. It’s a challenge that ignites thousands of fans. This sport is straight from the pages of western history and comes alive right before our eyes. This is only the start of a sensational Stampede evening culminating with a lovely buffet dinner at our private clubhouse table while enjoying the rest of the evening and the “Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth.”

As the sun goes down, the stars come out. For the next 90 minutes on the gigantic outdoor stage, hundreds of singers, dancers and musicians dazzle us in a lavishly produced and choreographed non-stop musical variety spectacular. We laugh, clap and even sing-along as top variety acts from around the world perform a glittering Grandstand show delighting audiences of all ages. The show culminates with a dazzling combination of fireworks and laser lights – a fitting end to a wonderful day.

On a day when no action is happening at the Stampede, we enjoy a full-day bus tour that includes the Canadian Rockies, snow capped mountains and the magical land of Banff and world famous Lake Louise.

On the final day we say our good-byes at a farewell continental breakfast as we remember all of the good times we enjoyed in Calgary, the city where “The World Meets The West.”