Tourism Winnipeg

4 2017 TRAVEL TRADE PLANNER WINNIPEG The Great Outdoors ASSINIBOINE PARK AND ZOO Whether you are looking to find yourself in Assiniboine Park's sprawling English gardens on a horticulture or historical themed tour during the summer months, or you want to experience the Journey to Churchill exhibit at the Zoo, where northern-themed tours brings you nose-to-nose with polar bears at North America's premier arctic exhibit, groups will love Winnipeg's crown jewel. THE FORKS NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE At Winnipeg's number one tourist locale, groups can learn about its earliest human-inhabited beginnings as an Indigenous meeting place, to its use as a European fur-trading post, to its current incarnation as an expansive bustling area where art galleries, theatres, water taxis, a central market, a world class skate park, and acres of pristine walking paths are just a few of the draws. LOWER FORT GARRY Travel back in time throughout summer at Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site where costumed interpreters are living life as it was in the 1830s. Roll up your sleeves and complete the tasks of those living in the Fort; see how the Hudson's Bay Company employees worked their trade; and hear stories of the First Nations peoples who signed Treaty No. 1 in 1871 at the Fort. Programming is available for student groups and people of all ages. THERMËA BY NORDIK SPA-NATURE In the forests of Fort Garry is where you'll find Winnipeg's year-round outdoor spa oasis, a place where outdoor thermal pools, Finnish saunas, an icy waterfall, Scandinavian steam rooms, and delicious dining combine to become the embodiment of total relaxation. Take pause in nature while indulging in numerous regenerative treatments under open skies. Arctic Glacier Winter Park: The Forks North Portage Partnership

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