Red Deer is a city in Alberta, Canada, located midway on the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. Red Deer serves central Alberta, and its key industries include health care, retail trade, construction, oil and gas, hospitality, manufacturing and education. It is surrounded by Red Deer County and borders on Lacombe County. The city is in aspen parkland, a region of rolling hills, alongside the Red Deer River.
Image: Red Deer Aerial downtown bridges
Image: Red Deer Regional Hospital
Image: Historic Red Deer Alberta street cafe photo by Kevin M Klerks June 7 2013 (1) (8983252801)
Elk deer in Jasper National Park near Maligne Canyon.
Calgary–Edmonton Corridor
The Calgary–Edmonton Corridor is a geographical region of the Canadian province of Alberta. It is the most urbanized area in Alberta and is one of Canada's four most populated urban regions. It consists of Statistics Canada Alberta census divisions No. 11, No. 8, and No. 6. Measured from north to south, the region covers a distance of approximately 400 km (250 mi). As of the designations in the Canada 2021 Census of census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and census agglomerations (CAs) in Alberta, the corridor includes three of the province's four CMAs and two CAs, in addition to four other CAs already included in the Calgary and Edmonton CMAs.
Calgary, the largest city in Alberta
Edmonton, the capital and the second largest city in Alberta
The Red Deer River flows through the city of Red Deer, AB, situated south of Edmonton and north of Calgary, approx. 150 km (93 miles, or 90 minutes‘ drive) each way.
