ow before you visit Cobb’s Adventure Park in Calgary, Alberta. Updated review 2024
Address: 1500 84 St NE Calgary
Parking: free gravel parking lot Cobbs is located on the right hand side of the road from 16th Ave, Hwy 1 East just before Stoney Trail. You turn left on Garden Road. See website for directions.
Day Pass Cost: General admission: $21.95 online, $27 at the door. Under 3 are free. Thursdays in July and August have discounted admission ($16.95 online, $22 at the door.
Cobb’s used to have two levels of admission but now only have one.
Activities:
Activities for 2024 include Black Light Mini Golf, Spider Climb, Archery, petting zoo (including wallabies), maze, games, pedal carts.
Food Services: Two food buildings side by side include a cookhouse and the Sugar Shack – Hot food such as fries, poutine, burgers, chicken fingers, veggie burgers, corn dogs, nachos and hot dogs are available. The Sugar Shack has all kinds of candy, popsicles, packaged ice cream and cold drinks. You can also pack a picnic lunch and eat it in the park. There are plenty of picnic tables.
Age Range: All ages.
Stay Length: 2 hours to all day.
Gordie’s Review (15 years old): “
Nicky’s Review (12 years old): “I liked it. I really liked petting the kangaroos. And feeding them.
Robbie’s Review (9 years old): “It was fun. I loved feeding the wallabies.”
Overall:
Cobbs Adventure Park opened in NE Calgary in mid August of 2013. It has been several years since we had visited originally (2017), so it was time for an updated review. We visited on a cool day in late May 2024.
Petting Zoo
One of the things that makes Cobb’s stand out is the petting zoo. The highlight is definitely the kangaroos and wallabies.
You can get some feed from the staff to feed to the wallabies.
Cobb’s says wallabies and kangaroos a lot. I believe that the animals that you actually can feed and pet are wallabies (which are smaller) although there are a couple kangaroos as well.
They also have a sloth as well as many more traditional farmyard animals.
goats, emus, chickens, bunnies, ducks, sheep and pigs.
Mazes: The last time we were there, there was a sad looking corn maze but this time there was a walled maze that the kids enjoyed. There was also a rope maze that we didn’t get to that you can access from the mid way point in the tractor ride.
Barnyard Games and Puzzles: There are a number of different little games, puzzles and mini mazes. They aren’t particularly fancy or elaborate, but my kids enjoyed trying them out.
My family’s favorite was the targets that you could throw basketballs or footballs into.
Play Area: This area is primarily aimed at younger kids with a few slides and a couple play features like a car and little house.
Giant Slides:
There are three parallel hill slides that my youngest (9) enjoyed sliding down.
Tractor Ride The ride is a 15-20 minute ride through the Corn Maze and over to a Rope Maze. You can get off at the halfway point or continue back in the loop.
Pedal Carts: This was one of the highlights for our kids. There are a few different kinds of pedal carts – including single riders and carts where you can go with your kids.
Spider Climb with inflatable slide
This is a popular attraction and even my 12 year old liked climbing up and sliding down. There appears to be a climbing wall but it wasn’t functioning while we were there.
The blacklight mini golf is not huge but bigger than it looks from the outside. It is definitely worth going through.
Archery
The sign still stays archery tag, but now it is just archery. For kids who don’t often get a chance to try to shoot a bow and arrow, it is still fun to try.
Overall we had a nice time at Cobb’s Adventure Park.
One of the best things about Cobb’s is how close it is to the NE side of the city.