Nordegg

Back on April 30th the girls and I decided to take a day trip out to Nordegg.  We are interested in purchasing a piece of recreational property out there and wanted to check it out.  Property in the National Parks of Banff and Jasper is restrictive and unaffordable.  Canmore is too far away, and too expensive.  But we can drive to Nordegg, and be in the front ranges of the Rockies, in under three hours.  We took a look around the subdivision and made some notes on a couple of the properties that we are interested in.  Before heading back to the city we decided to head over to the historic site at the nearby Brazeau Collieries.

During the summer months the historic site is explored by guided tour.  At this time of year there was no one around so we just wandered in and respectfully checked it out.  I've been up here photographing a number of times, but the girls had never seen it.  We followed the old rail line in to the base of the mine site, and then wandered in.  The date spikes in the railway ties were from 1929, and the mine operated until the 1950's.  I took a couple of shots with my view camera, and a bunch of snapshots with my digital.  By late afternoon we wandered back out to the truck, and made the drive back home.  We stopped for pizza in Rocky Mountain House and made it back home by evening.  

We gave some serious consideration to the idea of investing in some land in Nordegg.  We eventually ended up making an offer on one of the lots, which was recently accepted.  We are now committed to building a cottage on the lot within three years.  It seems as though we will be spending a lot more time out here in the months and years to come...