Aspen Woods

Overview

Aspen Woods occupies a substantial portion of Calgary’s westside, broadly bounded by Bow Trail SW and Strathcona Park to the north, Stoney Trail SW to the west, 17th Avenue SW to the south, and 69th Street SW to the east. The postal code is T3H. It is a busy and varied market: 170 residential sales over the twelve months to August 2026, a price range running from $205,500 to $3,888,000, and a housing type mix that includes mid-rise apartments, townhouse complexes, and detached family homes across a wide lot and finish spectrum. Despite that diversity, Aspen Woods reads coherently on the ground, a product of the master-planned origin that dictated road layouts, park placement, and land use well before the first home was built.

The community was developed in staged phases from the late 1990s onward, primarily by WestMark Developments and subsequent builders who purchased parcels within the approved plan. That staging produces a readable geography: the eastern sections closest to 69th Street tend to have earlier-era construction from the early-to-mid 2000s, while the western sections include later-phase builds from 2010 onward, some of which pushed into estate-scale footprints on larger lots. The result is a community with genuine internal variety in build quality and price without the randomness that characterises communities assembled parcel-by-parcel over a century.

What most consistently defines Aspen Woods is its dual anchor of private school access and Stoney Trail proximity. Webber Academy sits within the community at 1515 93rd Street SW. Rundle College is in adjacent Springbank Hill. Families who select a private school path often choose Aspen Woods precisely because the school commute is not a cross-city trip. And for everyone else, the Stoney Trail ring road offers westside access to Highway 1 and the mountains.

Over the twelve months to August 2026, the typical price across those 170 sales was $895,000, and half of them closed between $485,000 and $1,490,000. Detached houses were 84 of the sales, 49.4% of the market, typically $1,393,750. Row and townhouse homes closed 45 sales typically at $532,000, and apartments closed 37 typically at $360,000. Those three home types account for 166 of the 170 sales. The rest were 3 semi-detached sales and 1 full duplex sale, both too few to price.

David’s take

The vibe

The community’s commercial centre is Aspen Landing, and it does what most suburban shopping plazas don’t: it works as a place to spend an hour, not just a parking lot you pass through. The format is village-style, the layout is walkable from a substantial portion of the community, and the tenant mix punches above its size. The grocery anchor is Blush Lane on the higher end, with Safeway and Shoppers handling the everyday list. Around them sit places like Ladybug Bakery (which holds local consensus on the best brunch in the west), Mercato West for proper Italian groceries and prepared food, and a Crave Cupcakes that small kids treat as a weekend destination. For a young family, being able to fit a paediatrician appointment, a dental cleaning, and a coffee into a two-minute drive is the kind of practical convenience that consistently wins comparisons against communities further south.

The Westside Recreation Centre is the second anchor. It’s where the community swims, skates, and trains, and the recently completed 5,000-square-foot expansion (with a sizable new indoor track and additional fitness space) has only deepened that role. Beyond the centre itself, more than half of Aspen Woods is preserved green space: ravines, forested paths, and protected corridors run through the community, and the result is a neighbourhood that feels genuinely surrounded by nature in a way the newer sprawling suburbs further south never quite manage. WinSport, the former Canada Olympic Park, is under ten minutes from most addresses, which puts weekend skiing, the Tube Park, and the mountain-bike trails into the family rotation as something you do routinely rather than something you plan around.

The third asset is access, and it pays dividends both daily and on weekends. Aspen Woods sits at the western edge of the city, which means the Highway 1 interchange and 17th Avenue SW will put you in Canmore or Banff in roughly an hour while bypassing most of the inner-city traffic. On the commuter side, the 69 Street CTrain station is the western terminus of the Blue Line, so a seat on the morning train is essentially guaranteed for the ride downtown. That is a quiet advantage anyone boarding at a busier mid-line station rarely gets to enjoy.

Housing stock

The three main property types in Aspen Woods span a wide range that reflects both the staged buildout and the community’s size. Detached homes form the core of the community’s identity: the early phases produced conventional two-storey family homes on standard 50-foot lots, typically running 2,000 to 2,800 square feet above grade with double attached or detached garages, built between 2000 and 2014. These homes are now reaching the age where original kitchens and bathrooms are due for renovation, and condition varies a great deal from one house to the next. The later phases (2015 and after) moved toward larger footprints on upgraded lots, with higher-specification finishes as the baseline and estate-scale builds appearing on the western edge of the community.

Over the twelve months to August 2026, detached houses were 84 of the 170 sales, 49.4% of the market, typically $1,393,750 (average $1,460,722), between $730,000 and $3,888,000. The detached homes that sold had a typical build year of 2010, and half sold within 19 days. Most of that activity was earlier-phase stock. Homes built 2000 to 2014 were 75 of the 84 detached sales, typically $1,359,200 (average $1,397,195), between $730,000 and $3,350,000, with a typical build year of 2009, and half sold within 16 days. Homes built 2015 or later were 9 of the detached sales, too few to put a reliable price on. Both build-year groups are counted within the 84 detached sales.

Townhouse and row product clusters along the arterials and near Aspen Landing, primarily built between 2005 and 2015. These are condo-titled complexes of varying size and management quality, offering ground-level living with private outdoor space and attached or underground parking. Over the same twelve months, row and townhouse homes were 45 sales, typically $532,000 (average $670,445), between $455,000 and $1,610,044. The homes that sold had a typical build year of 2010 and a typical condo fee of $347.69 a month, and half sold within 36 days. That range is wide enough that its top sits above the bottom of the detached range, so the $532,000 typical price is a better guide to a typical townhouse here than the range alone.

The apartment segment is concentrated in mid-rise buildings near Aspen Landing, including Valmont at Aspen Stone and similar complexes in the Aspen Glen area. Most were built between 2006 and 2015 and offer one- and two-bedroom units in concrete or wood-frame construction. Condo fees vary significantly by building and age, and across the 37 apartment sales over the twelve months to August 2026 the typical fee was $659.43 a month. This tier is the community’s entry point. Apartments typically sold for $360,000, the lowest of the three published home types (average $351,295), between $205,500 and $487,000. The $205,500 low end is the lowest sale in the community. The apartments that sold had a typical build year of 2014, and half sold within 46 days.

The detached, row and townhouse, and apartment figures above cover 166 of the 170 sales. The 3 semi-detached sales and 1 full duplex sale make up the rest, and the table lists them as counts only because there are too few to price.

Type	Typical price	Notes
Detached	$1,393,750	84 sales (49% of all sales in the community) between $730,000 and $3,888,000. Half sold within 19 days. Typical build year 2010.
Detached, built 2000 to 2014	$1,359,200	75 of the 84 detached sales between $730,000 and $3,350,000. Half sold within 16 days. Typical build year 2009.
Detached, built 2015 or later	Too few sales	Only 9 of the 84 detached sales, not enough for a reliable price.
Semi-detached	Too few sales	Only 3 sales, not enough for a reliable price.
Row / townhouse	$532,000	45 sales between $455,000 and $1,610,044. Half sold within 36 days. Typical condo fee $348 a month, typical build year 2010.
Apartment	$360,000	37 sales between $205,500 and $487,000. Half sold within 46 days. Typical condo fee $659 a month, typical build year 2014.
Full duplex	Too few sales	Only 1 sale.

Recent sales

Over the twelve months to August 2026, half of all Aspen Woods sales closed within 29 days, and the average across all 170 sales was 35 days, the figure shown at the top of this page. Detached houses were quickest of the three published home types, with half selling within 19 days, and within them the homes built 2000 to 2014 took 16. Row and townhouse homes took 36 days and apartments 46, the slowest of the three.

Sale prices typically came in at 98.01% of the list price.

The average sale price shown at the top of this page is $1,018,944, and it sits $123,944 above the typical price of $895,000. For a typical Aspen Woods sale, go by the typical price, and for one kind of home, by that type’s own typical price in the table above.

Half of the 170 sales closed between $485,000 and $1,490,000. The $532,000 typical row and townhouse price and the $1,393,750 typical detached price both sit inside that range, and the $360,000 typical apartment price sits below where it starts, so this range shows where the community’s sales clustered, not what any one home type costs. Prices ran from $205,500 at the bottom, an apartment sale, to $3,888,000 at the top, a detached sale.

Schools

Webber Academy at 1515 93rd Street SW is a K-12 private school. Its location within the community means that Webber families can walk or drive their children to school in a few minutes rather than commuting across the city. That proximity translates into a real daily quality-of-life difference that is difficult to quantify but easy to understand.

Rundle College is in adjacent Springbank Hill, on 17 Avenue SW. The Calgary French and International School runs a French-immersion private program at 700 77 Street SW in Cougar Ridge.

For families in the public system, Dr. Roberta Bondar School is the CBE-designated public elementary for the Aspen Woods area, located in adjacent Strathcona Park. The senior high path runs to Ernest Manning High School at 20 Springborough Blvd SW, a large comprehensive senior high with AP, International Certificate, and Career and Technology Studies pathways. A new CBE 5-9 school in Aspen Woods is planned; confirm current junior high designation for your specific address with the CBE Find a School tool before purchasing. Catholic families are served by Guardian Angel School, a CSSD K-6 elementary at 20 Aspen Hills Drive SW within the community. St. Gregory School is designated for the junior high years, and St. Mary’s High School for senior high. From the 2027-28 school year, the designated Catholic senior high becomes St. Pier Giorgio Frassati High School, the new CSSD school in west Calgary due to open in fall 2027.

Getting around

Aspen Woods sits at a remove from downtown Calgary that the commute times alone don’t fully capture. Twenty minutes by car outside rush hour is accurate, but the westside location means that peak-hour inbound traffic on Bow Trail and the 17th Avenue SW corridor can extend that meaningfully. The community’s saving grace on commute is Stoney Trail: the ring road runs along the western edge of the community and provides a north-south alternative to the main east-west arterials.

For mountain access, Stoney Trail to a westbound Highway 1 connection is a shorter route than the Crowchild-to-Bow-Trail path that commuters from more central SW communities use.

Transit access is more limited than in communities along the existing LRT lines. The 69 Street LRT Blue Line station is the closest rapid transit point, accessible via bus or a short drive east. Calgary Transit routes serve the community, but service frequency and coverage reflect the suburban location: most Aspen Woods residents who rely on transit use it for downtown commuting rather than daily errands. Walkscore is low for most addresses; the community is fundamentally car-oriented outside of the Aspen Landing walkable core.

Frequently asked questions

Is Aspen Woods a good family neighbourhood?

Yes, particularly for families with children enrolled or planning to enrol in private school. The proximity to Webber Academy, Rundle College, and the commuting range for Calgary French and International School families makes Aspen Woods a deliberate choice for education-focused households. The community is also well suited for families who prioritise outdoor access: Stoney Trail provides fast mountain connections, and the internal pathway network and park spaces are genuinely well maintained. The trade-off is distance from the downtown core and limited transit, which matters less for families whose daily life is organised around schools and the westside commercial corridor.

How do Aspen Woods schools compare to other SW communities?

The private-school cluster centres on Aspen Woods and its border. Webber Academy at 1515 93rd Street SW is within the community, and Rundle College sits just across the boundary in Springbank Hill. CFIS, roughly 2 km away in Cougar Ridge, offers French-immersion private education but is a genuine drive rather than a neighbour. For public school families, the CBE and Catholic pathways in Aspen Woods are solid but not dramatically differentiated from comparable west-SW communities.

What is the difference between Aspen Woods detached homes built in 2005 versus 2020?

The difference is meaningful. A 2005-era detached in Aspen Woods is typically a conventional two-storey on a standard 50-foot lot with an original kitchen, bathrooms, and systems that are now twenty years old. Depending on how the home was maintained and updated, the condition range within this cohort is wide. Over the twelve months to August 2026, detached homes built 2000 to 2014 were 75 of the 84 detached sales in Aspen Woods, typically $1,359,200, between $730,000 and $3,350,000, and half sold within 16 days. A 2020 or later build starts with contemporary finishes, higher-specification mechanical systems, and often a larger lot and footprint in the later-phase western sections of the community, and it appeals to buyers who want to avoid renovation risk. Detached homes built 2015 or later were 9 sales over the same twelve months, too few to put a reliable price on. The price difference between a newer build and an older one has to come from comparable sales for the specific house rather than from a community figure.

Is Aspen Woods walkable?

Partially. Aspen Landing Shopping Centre, which includes a grocery anchor, pharmacy, banking, restaurants, and fitness studios, is walkable from nearby addresses and accessible by a short drive from most of the community. The internal pathway network connects park spaces and some residential areas. Outside of that Aspen Landing core, most daily errands require a car, and Calgary Transit service is infrequent enough that most residents do not rely on it for routine trips. Buyers expecting the walkability of Marda Loop or 17th Avenue SW should recalibrate their expectations before purchasing in Aspen Woods; buyers prioritising mountain access, private school proximity, and a quiet residential character will find the car-oriented layout is a comfortable trade.

How is the commute to downtown from Aspen Woods?

Twenty minutes by car is a reasonable estimate outside of peak hours, using Bow Trail or 17th Avenue SW east to the downtown core. During morning rush hour that can extend to 30 to 40 minutes depending on your specific destination and route. The 69 Street LRT Blue Line station provides a transit option with a scheduled ride to downtown of about 15 to 25 minutes; getting to the station from most Aspen Woods addresses adds another 10 to 15 minutes by bus or car. For commuters who work downtown and are considering Aspen Woods, the door-to-door journey on most days is comparable to other outer-SW communities like Signal Hill and materially longer than inner-city SW options like Altadore or Killarney.

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Sales data current as of 2026-08-31. Includes 170 residential sales in Aspen Woods over the twelve months to August 2026. Source: Pillar 9 MLS® System. Copyright 2026 Pillar 9. All Rights Reserved.

Commute times

Downtown	20 min
University of Calgary	19 min
Foothills Hospital	17 min
Airport (YYC)	32 min