By Alex McCuaig

Be a local tourist

Can’t travel? City has plenty of options to offer

Jun 24, 2020 | 4:44 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – With travel restrictions curtailing the ability of Hatters to visit far-flung locales, some are taking advantage of this city’s hot, dry weather and long summer days.

Whether it’s a picnic at Police Point Park or Kin Coulee or exploring the hundreds of kilometres of pathways, Jace Anderson of Medicine Hat Tourism says the city has a lot to offer to not only visitors but its own residents.

But it means taking some time to appreciate what’s in a resident’s own backyard.

“I can see aspects of the community, aspects of my neighbours and the people we live with, aspects of the landscape that I don’t recall seeing as intimately or as deeply as I do when I step back and look around,” said Anderson.

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That can mean a wide range of activities — everything from exploring native flora and fauna and wildlife to just taking a city trail to see where it goes.

Something Anderson says he did recently which ended at one of the city’s newest green spaces in the Somerside neighbourhood.

“It was incredible and when we found it, we played there for a while because it blew our minds it was in Medicine Hat,” said Anderson. “And it blew our minds it was that beautiful and yet we’d never seen it and nobody called us and said, ‘Hey, you’ve got to go here.’”

Anderson suggests if Hatters are looking for things to do in the city, one of the best places to start is by getting the latest edition of the Experience Medicine Hat Visitor Guide.

He added that he expects the visitor city to reopen in July and be able to provide options to travellers and locals alike.