Calgary has numbered Streets and Avenues starting from the centre of the city. STREETS run north – south intersecting with the AVENUES that run east – west. It is important to know whether you are looking for a Street or Avenue. The Calgary downtown landmark is the Calgary Tower and its base heading north is centre street.

The City is divided into quadrants: Northwest [NW], Southwest [SW], Northeast [NE], and Southeast [SE]. The quadrant designation is important as there are three “216 – 25 Ave” but they all have different quadrant designation i.e. SW, NW or NE. The first numbers are important because that tells you the cross street or avenue. In 216 – 25 Ave SW, the 2 of 216 indicates that the street crossing 25 Ave is 2nd Street and the 16 infers the 16th house or building in that block. If there are 4 numbers then the first 2 numbers indicate the cross street or avenue and so on.

Highway 1 is 16th Avenue North and runs east-west. Many of the major arteries are called Trails or Boulevards and these are used to get as close to the address before using the streets or avenues. Many guests coming in from Banff have access 25 Ave on the edge of the city but couldn’t drive all the way through as 25 Avenue is cut off by rivers, escarpments, hills etc. This is true for many of the street and avenues.

The directions below tell you how to access Westways without driving through the city centre as in the next two years major construction will result in the closure of some of the roads.

From Calgary International Airport

Exiting the airport and at the first set of lights, turn left onto Barlow Trail North and take the first left onto Airport Trail. Continue over the Deerfoot Trail and take a left turn to merge onto the southbound Deerfoot Trail. Take the 17 Ave S exit and turn right onto 17th Ave S.E. traveling across the Bow River and 17 Ave SE now becomes the Blackfoot Trail. Continue and after crossing the bridge over the railroad tracks take the Ogden Road exit, at the traffic lights turn right onto 26 Ave SE [do not go down Portland Street]. Continue and after crossing [no bridges] the second railroad tracks, 26th Ave will veer to the left and become Dartmouth Road, with you having the right of way. Turn right at the next lights onto 25 Ave SE and continue on, passing Spillers Road and the Calgary Stampede Park, crossing McLeod Trail S then the Elbow river bridge now you are on 25 Ave SW. As you past the 1st Street SW Junction on 25 Ave SW. we are then a half a block down on the right side [North] and it is a single house between two larger buildings. Just before our home is an apartment block with the number 210. 216 is the next house. We do have off street parking at the back of Westways and this is access by turning right onto 2nd Street SW and then immediately turning right into an alleyway [back lane] and half way down is Westways parking, please come to the front door using the side walk on the left and ring the doorbell on the right of the front door. Please do not try to access the house using the back door [insurance liabilities].

From Banff

Travel on Highway 1 to Calgary, just past the Olympic Park, turn right onto Sarcee Trail, continue to 17th Ave S and turn left, head east until you reach 2nd Street SW then turn right [south] onto 2nd Street SW. Continue along 2nd Street and you will notice the cross avenues junctions will go up in numbers i.e. 18th, 19th, 20th and so on. After passing 24 Ave SW immediately turning left into an alleyway [back lane] and half way down is Westways parking, please come to the front door using the side walk on the left and ring the doorbell on the right of the front door. Please do not try to access the house using the back door [insurance liabilities].

From the East

Highway 1 becomes 16 Ave North, westbound. Take the south bound Deerfoot Trail exit [Deerfoot Trail S]  Continue traveling south and take the 17 Ave S exit[second exit] and follow the instructions as for the Airport.

From the South

Highway 2 from Fort Mcleod as it approaches the City becomes Mcleod Trail North. Turn left onto 25 Ave heading west and I am a block & half after the bridge on the right hand side.

Regular taxi from the airport to Westways is around $34.00

If you are light on luggage and have time then there is a Calgary Public Transport bus no 57 from the Airport to Whitehorm C-Train Station. You then take the train to downtown - 7th Avenue. Change trains by crossing the tracks to the other platform and board the Southbound train to Summerset/Bridlewood and get off at Erlton Station. Head west on 25th Avenue cross over McLeod Trail and Westways is about 3 blocks down on the right hand side. The fare is $2.25 per person