Why Edmonton Is Seriously Underrated For Travel! Top Things To Do/Best Photo Spots!

We visit the highly underrated city of Edmonton where we show you guys some top things to do such as the University of Alberta's botanical gardens, Whyte Avenue, Geoscapes geodome dinner, and more! We also feature some of the best photo spots around town such as River Valley Overlook, Walter Dale Bridge, Muttart Conservatory, and more so much!
Detailed Edmonton 4-day summer itinerary:
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We visited the beautiful Kurimoto and Aga Khan gardens at the University of Alberta Botanic Garden, making for a romantic date with a lovely picnic box from the Patio Cafe.
Our long awaited trip to Elk Island National Park was made when we watched the sun set over Archer Island, projecting beautiful colours in the sky and calm water. Though we didn’t spot any bison, we did see an owl chilling on the middle of the road after nightfall!
Discovering downtown by e-scooter from YEG Scoot was the most fun way to get acquainted with the city and it’s many bike paths and lanes! Our favourite parts were definitely riding downhill on the zig-zag path at River Valley Overlook, as well as on the wide Walterdale Bridge. We didn’t hesitate to put our scooters in ‘sport’ mode for that one!
Our stay would not have been the same without The Matrix Hotel. This place has some stunning rooms and suites, and the Platinum Suites on the top floor completely wow’ed us! Some hotels might offer complimentary breakfast, but do they give you an executive buffet breakfast? The Matrix does!
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Chapters:
0:00 Cinematic Intro
1:00 Matrix Hotel
2:39 Filistix Restaurant
3:11 Photo Spot #1: River Valley Overlook
3:45 Photo Spot #2: Queen Elizabeth Hill
4:28 Photo Spot #3: Muttart Conservatory
5:10 Photo Spot #4: 100st Funicular
6:08 Photo Spot #5: Rowland Park Lookout
6:57 Picnic Dinner at the Botanical Gardens
8:35 Venturing Whyte Ave
9:32 Elk Island National Park
11:00 Scootering around Edmonton
11:46 Geodomes dinner
13:49 Outro

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[@KayTongguo]

Thank you for the list of photo locations. The chapters really help too👍

[@LaurenJason]

We’re really glad you found this video useful!

[@Outdoorswithmike]

Fun video to watch and the food was awesome.

[@LaurenJason]

Thank you Mike 🥰

[@GAMEOVER-zc7ek]

Happy that you're givin my home some love, bud. Nice vid. Btw, whats the title of that lit music playing at 6 min timestamp? Thanks!

[@LaurenJason]

Appreciate that! The song is called Surround Me - Kevin Andersson

[@charlesdolivo3312]

Another great city video you guys 👏👏

[@LaurenJason]

Thank you Charles

[@nancyferreira2317]

Looks amazing guys!

[@LaurenJason]

Thank you Nancy!🙏

[@marcoricci2517]

Another really awesome city video. Starting to really like city videos too now

[@LaurenJason]

We’re very glad you do!

[@gabriellawisdom]

Looks amazing!!

[@LaurenJason]

Thank you Gabriella!

[@Alan_P_Alvarado]

Another great video! Love your channel. I’m currently visiting Banff and used your videos as inspiration on where to take photos. Side note. We saw you at moraine a few days ago! You both looked great! Was too she to say hi lol. Keep up the awesome work!

[@LaurenJason]

Thank you so much! We’re so glad you getting the chance to explore Banff 🙌 Oh now way! Definitely come chat with us next time, we’re always excited to meet cool people

[@Vari88888]

Amazing video 📹 👏 loved it

[@LaurenJason]

Thank you for watching!

[@gabriellawisdom]

Elk island looks dreamy!!

[@LaurenJason]

It’s such a beautiful place for sunset!

[@foryourknowledge5675]

Wonderful video, can you make videos about West Edmonton mall and farmer market st. Albert

[@LaurenJason]

Thank you! And we’ll definitely note that for next time when we get a chance to go back there 🙌

[@melody35]

Wow nice video😍 Edmonton is my dream city

[@LaurenJason]

It’s such a wonderful city!

[@garrettahern3813]

@@LaurenJasonI hate Edmonton just something about it… bad vibes

[@DK-xs5df]

Great video! definitely going to reference this the next trip to Edmonton. (live in Calgary). Just curious which camera / lenses do you use for your videos? They are awesome. Cheers and just subscribed too.

[@LaurenJason]

Thank you! We’re so glad you can find some good use out of this video 🙌 and we use the canon R5 and the RF15-35 and RF 28-70

[@gp7910]

Great job! Maybe do Whyte ave,little Italy,118 ave and Chinatown...if they fix safety issues in the latter.

[@LaurenJason]

Fantastic suggestions that we’ll definitely add to the list when we get the chance to go back! Thanks

[@kaikigraph4790]

I Love watching this stunning and amazing video from My country Kenya 🇰🇪

[@LaurenJason]

We’re so glad you enjoyed watching from Kenya!

[@kaikigraph4790]

@@LaurenJason am coming there soon Goodwillingly

[@denirielle]

Has anybody told you that you sound like Dante Basco?? He’s a famous voice actor (Zuko from A:TLA)… dude it’s so uncanny.

[@LaurenJason]

Hahah I think that is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone say that! I loved that show -Jason

[@nikkian9254]

Thanks for sharing this! 💗 The reason I havent been to edmonton is because I've heard of "Deadmonton" and fear that it could be dangerous. Curious yalls perspective on this and how you felt safety wise when you guys were there?

[@LaurenJason]

Haha I believe they call it that name because they claim there’s nothing to do there rather than a safety issue because we felt quite safe everywhere we went! Of course as with any larger city, during the nighttime you could run into some uncomfortable situations but during the day it was great!

[@nikkian9254]

@@LaurenJason oh that's really good to know! haha I've been curious to visit Edmonton and now defs feel safer to do so 😄

[@MargaretWitlock]

Please do more of these travel guides please🙏🙏

[@LaurenJason]

We want to make lots more in the future!

[@AlishaWolfe]

Don’t come here now there are too many fires 😂😂

[@LaurenJason]

We heard about the fire! We’re currently overseas so we’re not sure how it’s looking but heard about the fires on the news!

[@AlishaWolfe]

@@LaurenJason yeah it’s pretty scary as I live in Toronto.. I wish I could help them out 🥺

[@LaurenJason]

@@AlishaWolfe for sure! We heard so many people had to leave their homes as well… it’s so sad 😭

[@AlishaWolfe]

@@LaurenJason yeah it’s pretty sadddd :/

[@tylernguy5242]

@@AlishaWolfe The recent rain has helped improve things at least.

[@slashd0t]

Of course the Funicular is closed due to vandalism - it’s Edmonton … Anytime anything nice is built here, people feel the need to destroy it.

[@LaurenJason]

Haha is that really the case?

[@Chydova]

Very sad. The government should do something about this.

[@kaikigraph4790]

Your email please!!