The Calgary Parks T-Shirt: A Collab That Gives Back to the Green Spaces We Love
Some cities are defined by their skylines. Calgary is defined by its parks.
From the river paths along the Bow to the open prairies of Nose Hill, Calgary's green spaces aren't a backdrop to city life, they are city life. They're where first dates happen and where old friendships are maintained. Where kids spend entire summers and adults remember why they chose this place.
That's why when Tourism Calgary reached out with an idea, to celebrate Calgary's parks on a t-shirt, we didn't hesitate. And when Parks Foundation Calgary joined the conversation, something real started to take shape.
The result is the Calgary Parks T-Shirt: a limited pre-sale collab between Local Laundry, Parks Foundation Calgary, and Tourism Calgary. A Canadian-made t-shirt with eight Calgary park names printed in forest green on natural cream. And $10 from every shirt sold going directly back to the parks themselves.
Here's everything you need to know.
The Three Organizations Behind This Shirt
Local Laundry
Local Laundry is a Calgary-born brand built on community pride. Founded in 2015, we make clothing that carries more than a logo, it carries a story, a value, and a sense of belonging. We've done collabs with nonprofits, athletes, libraries, sports teams, and causes that matter to our city. The Calgary Parks T-Shirt is one of the ones we're most proud of.
Parks Foundation Calgary
Parks Foundation Calgary has been building the Calgary you love for over 40 years. Since 1984, they've invested more than $250 million into parks, playgrounds, pathways, and natural spaces across the city. Every single year, they help bring 100+ new spaces to life where Calgarians can play, gather, and connect.
Their Building Communities Program funds community-led park initiatives, neighbours who have a vision for a neglected space and need support to make it real. That's where your $10 goes.
If you've ever walked the Rotary/Mattamy Greenway, that remarkable 145-kilometre pathway network that encircles the entire city, you've experienced Parks Foundation's work firsthand.
Tourism Calgary
Tourism Calgary champions everything that makes people choose Calgary. Their President & CEO, Alisha Reynolds, said it best when this collab first came up: "We'd love to see more Calgarians celebrating Calgary."
Because here's the thing: Calgary's parks aren't just an amenity. They're a reason people move here, stay here, and love it here. Tourism Calgary knows that, and this shirt is a way to say it out loud.
The Eight Parks on the Shirt
We didn't choose the eight most famous parks. We chose eight parks that together tell the full story of Calgary, one from every corner, every quadrant, every kind of experience this city offers.
Prince's Island Park
Right in the heart of downtown, Prince's Island sits on a 20-hectare island in the Bow River, connected to Eau Claire by three bridges. Named after Peter Anthony Prince, a lumberman who arrived in Calgary in 1886, the park is the city's living room, home to festivals, concerts, river walks, and thousands of lunch-hour escapes. It has an environmental wetland pathway that treats stormwater before it returns to the river. In a city of green spaces, Prince's Island is the heartbeat.
Confederation Park
In the northwest, Confederation Park is a beloved neighbourhood anchor with a duck pond, winding pathways, and one of the best playgrounds in the city. It's the kind of park that feels timeless, the same families have been going there for generations, and newcomers discover it and wonder how they didn't know about it sooner.
Prairie Winds Park
Prairie Winds represents the northeast, and it represents it well. With two playgrounds, a spray park, a wading pool, and a hill made for tobogganing, it's a year-round park that serves one of Calgary's most diverse and vibrant communities. Including Prairie Winds on this shirt was important to us. Every quadrant deserves a seat at the table.
Fish Creek Provincial Park
Fish Creek is something special. Spanning 1,348 hectares and stretching 19 kilometres from east to west across the city's south end, it is the second-largest urban park in Canada, larger than many provincial parks, and it's right inside a major city. Over 100 kilometres of trails. Indigenous heritage sites. Wetlands and forests. Beaver dams. It officially opened in 1975 and has been one of Calgary's greatest treasures ever since. If you haven't spent a full day at Fish Creek, put it on the list.
Glenmore Park
Wrapping around the Glenmore Reservoir in the southwest, Glenmore Park is Calgary's best-kept secret. Pathways along the water, spray parks, picnic sites, and a reservoir view that surprises people who've somehow never made it out there. It's the park Calgarians recommend to visitors who want something beyond the obvious.
Edworthy Park
Along the banks of the Bow River in the northwest, Edworthy Park is beloved for its massive shade trees, secluded picnic areas, and the kind of quiet that's rare in a growing city. With nine bookable picnic sites, many accommodating up to 100 people, it's also one of the best spots in Calgary for a gathering. The river path through Edworthy connects to a broader network that could take you across half the city if you let it.
Nose Hill Park
Nose Hill is extraordinary. At over 11 square kilometres, it's the fourth-largest urban park in Canada and one of the largest in North America. It exists today because in the 1970s, a group of residents and naturalists fought hard to protect it from development. That grassroots effort saved one of the last remaining native grassland ecosystems in the Calgary area. Standing on Nose Hill on a clear day, with the Rockies on the horizon and the city spread out below you, is one of the best things you can do in this city. Full stop.
Bowness Park
If Calgary has a park with a soul, it's Bowness. A lagoon, boat rentals, a miniature train, a wading pool, giant bookable picnic sites that have hosted generations of family gatherings. In winter it becomes a skating destination. It's the kind of park that means something different to everyone who grew up near it, and something immediate to everyone who visits it for the first time.
$10 From Every Shirt. Matched Up to 50%.
Ten dollars from every Calgary Parks T-Shirt sold goes directly to Parks Foundation Calgary's Building Communities Program, funding community-led park projects across the city.
And through Rogers Birdies for Kids presented by AltaLink, your contribution is matched up to 50%, making your $10 go even further toward the playgrounds, pathways, and green spaces that future Calgarians will grow up loving.
This isn't a symbolic gesture. It's a real contribution to real places.
Why a T-Shirt?
Because a t-shirt goes places.
It goes to the park. It shows up at the farmers market and the school pickup and the Saturday morning trail run. It becomes a conversation starter. It gets noticed and gets asked about. And every time someone asks, the answer involves Parks Foundation Calgary, and the work they do, and the city they've been quietly building for 40 years.
Clothing carries culture. We've always believed that. And there's no better culture to carry than this one.
The Details
Pre-sale: June 26 – July 12, 2026 Ships: End of August 2026 Price: Check locallaundry.ca Made in Canada 🇨🇦 Only what's ordered gets produced, no overstock, no waste.
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