Reviews of Upper Fort Garry Heritage Provincial Park (Zoo)

Mario Laliberte (McMario & McMusic)

(Translated) At the end of the restoration of historic places. Free and very informative about the founding of Winnipeg (Original) En fin de restauration de lieux historiques. Gratuit et très informatif sur la fondation de Winnipeg

Jonathan Goolcharan

Well taken care of

Kriss Rummerfield

Beautiful

Marina Havard (Marishinka)

Fun for the kids to place around and climb.

Bryce Stein

lets freaking go garry

Gordon Carrick

Very nice park .

MIX3DVI3WS

It's always so beautiful to walk through. The train sounds and the music sound effects and lights add a great touch to the area.

Emily CPY

It's a very nice public park in a central location.

David Lindsay

Very nice place

Lisa Hanson (Rocknrolldowager)

A beautiful spot marking the gateway to the west. The park is such a peaceful place in the garter of downtown. Rabbits and all. But the light show in the rebuilt wall was so breathtaking, we had to return after dark to watch it once again. There is some signage explaining the importance of the site, I would have liked to have seen more. I would recommend a trip to the st Boniface museum before or after a trip here.

Mike Morgado

In the heart of the city. Lies the heart of it history.

Justin Fisher

Well maintained and had to check this place out because I have relatives who live nearby. Definitely a must check out if you are interested in history.

Jon Dyck

Park area and Pavilion has been well done.

Trevor

Lame, was probably something to see a 100 years ago, but nothing to see now.

Scott Kilborn

Upper Fort Garry Heritage Park is a landmark of Winnipeg.

Lowell Thomas

Good place

salman farshi

Fine

Joshua Zenuik

Good place to hit some jumps and trails

Harvey Ranville

The wall of lights are great and it has sound.

B Thiessen

Not a pile to see but definitely worth checking out if you have never been.

Randall Pentney

Beautiful place for a walk

saif adnan

Great place in winter

Keith Waugh

Fascinating

waterup380

Place is nice there is an app it don't know what it is called you can see some of what things used to be here at one time

alyssa dueck

Stunning wedding venue and all around very well taken care of and beautifully presented to the public. Well worth the walk around!

Atticus Wicklund

its a fun place

White Lion Athletics

Definitely worth checking out ! Be sure to check their website to find out when the show is on and when sound is ON and when it is OFF. ENJOY!!

Albert Riezebos

Great park and history. There's an app for the history.

Carol Finlay

Super cool at night for the lighted moving mural. A seminal piece of Treaty 1 history and a must see for visitors.

roadster2014 ?

Very nice place. Lots of plaques with interesting information. Came early in the spring. Planning to come back at night and when the summer flower bloom. Weeks might not be the time to come as there are lots of wedding parties using the site for pictures.

Mag Jigs

Nice place to chill

Daniel Roscoe

If you are in the area, this is a neat place to check out. You can just walk through or sit and contemplate.

James Dykstra

It's a slice of the fur trade right in downtown Winnipeg. It's not rebuilt, but the original north wall and gate of the fort. Every history buff should see it.

Brian Buchan

interesting and historical site

Bernardete Siqueira

Well, I really enjoyed some peaceful moments there! Walking around and reading about the importance of this heritage park to the city! Apropos it was absolutely delightful to appreciate the show through the rebuilt steel and lights wall! A must in Winnipeg for sure!

Jay Shah

Amazing place. Very peaceful if you find the perfect spot by the river for an afternoon to relax and refresh

Alec Goertzen

Such a nicely designed park... lites sounds...

Quinn Marie

Beautiful space

Rinston Tinski

Enjoyed my stay here sat by myself,eating fries from VJ's ...pondering about life.aa

Miles Reid

This is a beautiful underappreciated Park the part that's new is stunning. Go at night to appreciate the lights

TRIDENT SECURITY SHIELD CANADA

Great place

Inderjit singh

Nice place

Allan Lalonde

Nice historical place to visit

Beautiful Obegeenoob

For few minutes to yourself when you need it!

Ken and Alicia Lund

Excellent remnants of a historic fort in the heart of downtown Winnipeg. Lots of informative and useful interpretive signage as well. Just across from the Forks.

Tokyo Thomas

Love the new look !?!

John Cooke

Personally while the land on which this fort sits on is very historical. The land as it is right now has no value. It would have been cool if they had some artistic way to show the foundations of the buildings as they once stood. But because some of the land is no longer usable since the street is right there. I'm glad that the gate is still there. One other thing that would have been cool would be marking the exact spot where Louis Riel executed Thomas Scott.

Kris Brown

Nice little park

Liam was Not here

not enough burger

Iryna Maiboroda

Must see place!

Garnet Watkins

I had no idea how beautiful this place was. The speakers and the visual effects were unbelievable. I didn't realize I thought they were the real deal. A must experience place

Tourism Winnipeg

Beautiful historic space that has had a lot of recent upgrades and improvements. Recommend taking the tour and learning more through their app

terence morton

Nice place to relax

Craig Young

Is Winnipeg bankrupt? The park was a mess. The lawns were hayfields and gardens haven’t been cared for in a very long time. Such a shame to have invested that kind of money into the area just to let it go downhill.

Liz Maciaszek

No wonder it's a popular choice for wedding pictures

Cole

Honestly a great park but I could do without the music, advertisements and sound effects.

Toby Bartlett

This park has a very unique layout. An LED/audio interactive story wall and is very well maintained. The schedule is on their website for when the audio/LED show runs and apparently there is an app you can download to interact with it. Worth the visit to this historic site to learn or to see some great architecture meet technology.

DrFly

Very friendly

Derek Schmidt

Beautifully done. Clean, safe

corri bedard

Drove by stick in traffic. Looks nice from the road.

Fran V Mentuck

I've always loved the media wall. Finally had time to sit and enjoy it, after picking up some snacking fries from V.J's

Gabriella Sinclair

Love it

Roger Noack

It's a very nice and quite place to read or just sit and relax and just be one with the outdoors

Johnny Rockstar

If your here please admire the landscape, and enjoy the variety of plants... While your at it, take B some history and learn about our wonderful history

Wade Razella

It's OK I am disappointed in the project that was put forward years ago as it really did not offer more into the history of upper for Garry.

Marcelo . Ruffini

Beautiful park

Lee Cushnie

Great place too visit

Andrew M (OhmGnome)

I love what this has become. I even worked for a company that helped build parts of the "new" park.

Sebastian Kluth

Upper Fort Garry Heritage Provincial Park is a small park where the fort of the same name once stood. You can walk around and read some information about it on some signs. This place should one day become a museum to offer tours with even more information.

Mr Mo

One of the Best if not the Best park

Keith Baxter

Beautiful job of resurrecting a character and heritage site. And you can jig along to the light show and music!

Lorraine James

A very quiet park a majority of the time. Has its moments of people meandering around or workers keeping the place weed-free.

Sylvain Leotard (Sylvanito)

(Translated) Small nice historical site that runs quickly, very close to the center and beautifully lit at night (Original) Petit site historique sympa qui se parcourt vite, très près du centre et joliment éclairé la nuit

Adam Orbanski

Love this little piece of history right downtown

Luis Morgado

Beautiful park with historic information about Fort Garry and a magnificent artistic wall in Corten steel. A wise architectural and landscape design.

Reinaldo C Ferreira

Beautiful

Farouk Youssef

Good park

Rich Affleck

The development of this space for downtown Winnipeg is amazing. It a great spot to just spend some time walking around with the family. The lights are beautiful and I never get tired of it.

John David Pankratz

Would like to have an inside structure

Pablo Listingart

Nice little park. The fort gate and the lights are really nice. Not much to do but a really nice park.

Susan R.

I was so impressed with our city for creating this amazing beautiful space to honor the original Fort Garry.The original gate is still there and to see it and touch it is like going back in history. The light display on the engraved picture wall was absolutely delightful! Way to go City of Winnipeg. You have made me proud.

Anna Golebiewska

Great place to learn about history of this land and city.

Justin Q

Very nice

Kyle B.

Download the app when walking the park and get a ton of knowledge

Loic Bazin

Lovely place.

Mauricio Alfaro

Love it. A lovely and educational space in the heart of downtown.

Sam Hansen

Very nice park in the summer to just relax

Ranee Green

Nice and open. The design affords one ease of crossing during a blizzard.

Osé Domond

(Translated) An interesting walk (Original) Une promenade interessante

Darin K

The park holds the place of the historic site, but isn't a destination.

Mckinley Morton

Its just a small area with an installation

Heather Scott

I have always wanted to stop here and went for a drive one day to finally stop and look around. Well maintained, peaceful when not close to the interactive wall, always good to learn about history and best of all you can go at your own pace and stay as long as you want.

Walter Andreeff

This is a great place for all Canadians to visit and it should be on a MUST VISIT list for #mètis people who travel to Winnipeg. This is the central place of our historical homeland and the place where my Goulet ancestors lived.

Thomas Osei-Aning

As a landscaping enthusiastic I absolutely love this park. I love how it's Provincial Park in the middle of urban downtown setting. The history of the Forts described on the walls and the preservation of the gates is just wonderful.

James Heber

Peaceful

Charlie W

Ugly, noisy, busy, and unnecessary light and sound installment with terrible sound quality. Too much pavement and gravel, and not enough greenery to call it a real park or greenspace. Historical map is mounted so visitors are not facing the points of interest while viewing the map.

Roxann Koop

Lots of information. Plenty of places to sit.

Lauren McAulay

Really nice park, well taken care of. Neat to see a mix of history and new architecture all in one place. Has a neat light show that comes on every 15 mins or so

Bruce Halow

Nice setting and good seating, nice light animated mural, but would like a few more stories told by it.

丁伟

(Translated) Very historical, very quiet place (Original) 很有历史气息，很幽静的地方

Andre Hunte

Nice

Алиса Котельникова

I constantly visit this place when I wait for my bus. best of all this place looks in the evening when the lights are visible

Joe Benarroch

Beautiful site great area for walk cycling and enjoying the scenery

keith tuckett

Crapy found drug use needles on the ground there with the kids! Do not recommend at all!

Diana Marat

Very significant location in the history of the city of Winnipeg.

Greisi Keli Grisante

Wonderful place!

Longfei Guan

nice place

Gabriel Nazario (Fjaum)

Beautiful place for a walk close to the forks.

mitch geswein

Beautiful

Kyle Herkert

Nice quiet small park with a historical building. Definitely worth checking out.

Robert Brown

Good

Francesco Marrello

Nice area

Tony Fast

Again part of the Red River fur trade tour.

Kelly Epp

A great place to see. Big history

Amy Allen

My daughter and I love the music and light show everytime we walk up. We sit on the stage and sketch or she does a little dance to the music. Wonderful feeling being there.

anna girgih

It's a fun place

Marie Vincent

No flowers & too many people sleeping on the benches

georgia inglis

Ok....the barking dog is a little weird ..nice stage ..wish they had entertainment...seems like no one uses it...

Kolawole Oladapo

Lovely views and enjoyed walking through here to the Forks

Sudbert

(Translated) Lack of French! It is a small park, but very well laid out. It is located right next to the Fort Garry hotel. The park recalls all the forts built that preceded the construction of Fort Garry. The explanatory plaque at the entrance is bilingual but contains a mistake in French (see my photo): "enlarged", penultimate line. This is unacceptable from an organization like Parks Canada. The small park is accessible free of charge; parking is only $ 2 / hr which is inexpensive in the area. (Original) Faute de français! C'est un petit parc, mais fort bien aménagé. Il est situé tout à côté de l'hôtel Fort Garry. Le parc rappelle tous les forts construits qui ont précédé l'édification du Fort Garry. La plaque explicative, à l'entrée, est bilingue mais contient une faute de français (voir ma photo) : «agrandy», avant-dernière ligne. Ceci est inacceptable de la part d'une organisation comme Parcs Canada. Le petit parc est accessible gratuitement; le parking ne coûte que 2$/hre, ce qui est peu cher dans les environs.

Sally Nystrom

Beautiful way of telling the history of this part of the world in music and lights and sound effects.

Jeff Ehlers

Shared a beautiful moment here with a beautiful person in my life. It is a special place worth a visit.

Abel S

Nice park for downtown Winnipeg, across from Union station (Via Rail)

Payam Nabipay

It's been forever and even though they were given money by the government to build their interpretive center ; it's still a parking lot

Rae Gibson

We were here on a tour but we didn't have too much time to stop and didn't have a chance to get out to look at it. They are adding to it and renovating to preserve the historical value of it. Lots of history worth listening to in the stories here, at The Forks and also Lower Fort Garry and Selkirk.

Nancy Goodall

Neat place to visit in Downtown Winnipeg. The display at the back lights up and the gardens are beautiful.

Chuck Vidler

It's a neat place, only one homeless person sleeping on a bench at midnight.

Ivan Colmenares

Historical place, beautiful

Sandra John Miness

It is clean and wide open with a moving light images display wall that expresses prairie themes. It is nice to have new creations and a piece of our history intertwined .

Lane Jones

Excellent place to spend some hours of quiet and to relax... learn some history and enjoy.

John Abumere

Very exciting

Amitava Bhattacharjee

Not many items to see!

Nate B

Recommend going here and learning a bit of Winnipeg’s history. This is one of the places it all began. Can’t beat free admission. This is definitely a historic landmark worth checking out with many other notables in close proximity (The Forks, Canadian Museum for Hunan Rights, Legislative Building).

Perry Belcourt

Historical

Brendan Rex

Quite attractive, nice scenery.

John Vermette

1st time at Fort Grarry. I was surprised how nice it look and impressed by the steel wall. I will return and check it out in more detail.

Tylene Wright

Even though there's not very much there, it's just nice to look at and walk through history!

Daniel Elias

Cool but very small, it only has the main gate and part of the outer wall connected to it.

James Shway

Great park

Chelsea Pachet

A beautiful park, full of history.

Conrado Nathaniel Penales

I would have given this a higher rating, but recently have been noticing used needles tucked in the shrubs and along the entrance ways.

Victor Lopes

Historic

George Matos

My family had an amazing experience...loved the interactive sounds and light show.

rhiannon edge

the old fort....back in the day....a large burial mound stood just outside the gates of the fort...when they razed it to build winnipeg, in the late 1890s, they found bones of unusually large size. many of them were taken by settlers as souvenirs....so, take a look in your elders collections...if you see a large bone it might be from this mound. its very interesting history.

Sheneza Khan

Meal portion was very small and slow service but taste of food was good.

Samantha Boettcher

Okay if you are in the area but next time worth a trip across Winnipeg. Not much to see beyond parts of the old wall.

Olga Anikin

Great gor kids

Steve Mcrae

awesome piece of history

Maria Cassidy

Very nice

Eleanor Andres

Development of this park is in its infancy, but it's definitely already worth seeing. Stop by at dusk and watch the short sound and light show displayed along a long, decorative steel wall. Very creative.

Satwinder Singh

Nice location nice picture