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Local: Visitor Tips

• Start in the north end of town, at Wanuskewin Heritage Park which takes you back through 6,000 years of Northern Plains Indians history.
• Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park and Zoo showcases indigenous animals and plants of Saskatchewan (as well as others from around the world).
• Visit the beautiful riverside University of Saskatchewan campus, which has both great architecture and several museums (covering history, geology, biology, and art).
• Head into downtown and see The Ukrainian Museum of Canada, which displays the heritage and culture of the early settlers. (If you're really interested, the city has a second Ukrainian Museum just west of downtown, in the middle of the Riversdale shopping district)
• Check out the exhibits on Saskatoon’s history at the Meewasin Valley Center, overlooking the river.
• Head across the Broadway Bridge into the Nutana/Broadway area, with some of the oldest buildings in the city, and some great shopping.
• Head south to the Western Development Museum, located in the Prairieland Exhibition Grounds. The museum offers lots of early settlement history, including a street scene right out of the pioneer days of 1910.
• Start your evening at the Emerald Casino, or watch thoroughbred racing action at the Marquis Downs racetrack.

• Tour the Riversdale District, a culturally diverse area with great shops interspersed with colourful wall murals and interesting sculptures.
• Visit to the Saskatchewan Railway Museum (west on Highway 7 and 2 km south on Highway 60), complete with diesel locomotives, street cars, and railway memorabilia.
• Take a canoe trip on the South Saskatchewan, from Poplar Bluff (south on Valley Road on the city's west side).
• Head north (about an hour) to Batoche, which shows the Metis heritage of the 1880s, including a church, a farmhouse, and military trenches.
• Right nearby is the The Seager Wheeler farm, which shows original farmers' conditions a century ago. There is now also a teahouse and a visitors centre at the farm.
• Visit the many interesting towns around Saskatoon