Overview
Scenic Acres is on the west side of NW Calgary, with Arbour Lake across Crowchild Trail, Tuscany across Stoney Trail and Silver Springs across Nose Hill Drive. No road runs along its south edge. Bowness, with Bowness Park, lies beyond it, and Baker Park sits at that end of the community, on the valley floor.
Undeveloped land runs along the Bow valley past the south-west stretch of Stoney Trail, and Ranchlands, Royal Oak and Valley Ridge each meet Scenic Acres at a corner. The community is in Ward 1, and nearly every street name in it starts with Sc: Scenic, Scurfield, Scimitar, Scotia, Schooner.
Over the twelve months to August 2026, 86 homes sold in Scenic Acres, and 70 of them, 81.4%, were detached houses. The typical detached price was $796,500, and half of those houses sold within 22 days. Semi-detached homes made up 12 more sales, at a typical $550,000. The last 4 were row and townhouse homes, and no apartment sold.
Nobody here pays a residents or homeowners association fee. The community’s extra landscaping comes from a City of Calgary special tax on every residential property in Scenic Acres, $66.83 for 2026, and it arrives on the property tax bill.
David’s take
The vibe
Built through the 1980s and 1990s
The City’s population counts show nobody living in Scenic Acres until 1982, when 512 people had moved in. Building started on the south-east streets and worked north and west. By the 2021 census, 39% of the community’s homes dated from 1981 to 1990 and 54% from 1991 to 2000. The Scenic Acres Community Association says it formed in 1985, “with only about 10% of the community developed.”
The population peaked at 9,608 in 2002. The number of homes has held at about 2,900 since then, while the number of people living in them has drifted down: the 2021 census counted 7,850.
Owners who stayed
At the 2021 census, 78% of Scenic Acres residents gave the same address as five years before, where the Calgary figure was 58%. People aged 65 or older made up 23% of the community, next to 13% citywide. Home ownership ran to 92% of households, compared with 69% across the city, and just 42% of those owners still carried a mortgage (Calgary: 65%). Median household income came to $134,000, where Calgary’s was $98,000.
LEAF and the special tax
Bylaw 2M2026, passed by Council on February 24, 2026, puts an enhanced landscape maintenance tax on every residential property in Scenic Acres. It appears as its own line on the property tax bill. For 2026 it is $66.83, up from $63.65 in 2025.
The tax goes back to 2013, after a petition across the community won the support of two-thirds of property owners, the share the City needs before it will levy one. Each year’s tax rests on that year’s Council bylaw. Owners also decide every five years, in a reaffirmation vote, whether it carries on, and the association reports that they kept it in 2018 and 2023, with 92% and then 90% of the votes cast in favour. Any owner can start a petition to end it. From one year to the next, the association can request a change of no more than five per cent, which Council approves.
The community association runs the work as its LEAF programme, short for Landscape Enhancement and Appreciation Fund. The City’s 2026 notice lists what it pays for: mowing and trimming of the grass areas, sports fields included, curb sweeping and spring and fall cleanups of the parks, and seasonal flowers and winter displays in 38 planters and 23 in-ground flower beds.
Membership in the Scenic Acres Community Association is a separate matter from the tax. It is optional, and each membership lasts a year. Where a home belongs to a condo corporation, its condo fee comes on top of the tax.
Baker Park, the escarpment and the ravine
In the City’s description, Baker Park sits “across the Bow River from Bowness Park” and is “the most popular park for outdoor weddings.” It is at 9333 Scenic Bow Rd NW, at the south end of the community on the valley floor, on the site of the former Baker Centre tuberculosis institution. It covers 12 hectares, with picnic areas, pathways, a grass amphitheatre, a river observation point, washrooms and a disc golf course. The Greenway and the Trans Canada Trail both run through it.
The Scenic Acres Escarpment, a City park left largely as natural area, lies between the houses and Baker Park, and the City’s Scenic Acres Ravine park keeps more natural area inside the community. Dogs have three City off-leash areas inside the boundary, two small ones near Crowchild Trail and a larger one along Stoney Trail on the west edge. Bowmont Park’s off-leash areas are across Nose Hill Drive, in Silver Springs.
For organised sport, the City’s fields inside the community include four ball diamonds, seven soccer fields, two tennis courts and a basketball court.
The community centre and Crowchild Twin Arena
The community association’s centre is at 8825 Scurfield Drive NW. It has a main hall for rentals, two beach volleyball courts and the East Field, where the association builds a large rink each winter. The association’s community garden is beside the centre.
Crowchild Twin Arena, at 185 Scenic Acres Drive NW, is inside Scenic Acres as well. By the arena’s own account, it was built in 1981, opened in January 1982 and has two rinks, Red and Blue. The same account gives Scenic Acres, Silver Springs and Varsity a one-third share each.
Groceries across Crowchild Trail
Inside Scenic Acres, the shopping comes down to a gas station with a convenience store on Scenic Acres Boulevard and a pharmacy on Scurfield Drive, with no supermarket. The Crowfoot shops, with a Safeway and a Calgary Co-op among them, are across Crowchild Trail in Arbour Lake, and so are the Crowfoot Library and the Melcor YMCA at Crowfoot. The Home Depot on Nose Hill Drive is in Tuscany, and the strip centres on Silver Springs Boulevard are in Silver Springs.
Housing stock
In the 2021 census, 90% of occupied homes in Scenic Acres were single-detached, where the Calgary figure was 55%.
The attached homes are on a handful of streets. Townhouse complexes are on Scimitar Heath, Scimitar Circle and Scimitar Rise, on Scenic Gardens, on Scenic Acres Terrace and on Scotia Landing. Duplex units are on Scimitar View, Scimitar Landing, Scimitar Court and Scimitar Point. There are no apartment condos, and the two seniors’ residences on Scurfield Drive are the only multi-storey residential buildings.
Nobody has applied since January 2024 to build rowhouses, townhouses, semi-detached homes or apartments in Scenic Acres. The development permit applications filed here are almost all for houses already standing, among them secondary suites, home businesses and a garage with a backyard suite above it.
| Type | Median sale price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | $796,500 | 62 |
| Semi-detached | $550,000 | 13 |
| Row / townhouse | $477,000 | 2 |
| All home types | $721,000 | 77 |
Recent sales
Across all 86 sales in the twelve months to August 2026, the typical price was $736,750, and the middle half of sales closed between $635,000 and $860,000. Individual sales ran from $440,000 to $1,825,000. The lowest price, $440,000, was paid for a townhouse, and only 4 townhouses sold. Detached houses ran from $552,000 up to that $1,825,000, and semi-detached homes from $450,000 to $733,500.
Half of the 86 homes sold within 22 days, and the typical sale closed at 97.94% of the asking price. The average sale, $778,171, ran $41,421 ahead of the typical one, and the average home took 29 days to sell.
The 12 semi-detached homes typically sold for $550,000, and half of them went within 19 days. They typically carried a condo fee of $438 a month, and the typical one was built in 1998.
Across Nose Hill Drive, Silver Springs had 83 sales in the twelve months to August 2026, with a typical price of $698,500 to Scenic Acres’ $736,750. Half its homes sold within 20 days, and its typical sale closed at 98.05% of asking. A typical detached house went for $795,000 there and $796,500 here, and half of Silver Springs’ detached houses sold within 14 days. Detached houses made up 66.3% of its sales, compared with 81.4% in Scenic Acres. Its homes that sold were typically built in 1976, and Scenic Acres’ in 1993.
If it’s your own house you want priced, start with a home valuation. Buying instead? Start with the buyer’s guide.
Getting around
Crowchild Trail runs along the north-east edge of Scenic Acres, Stoney Trail along the west and south-west, and Nose Hill Drive along the east, with a short stretch of 85 Street at the south-east. Nose Hill Drive also runs through the south of the community, coming in off Stoney Trail and crossing to the east edge. Inside, Scurfield Drive, Scenic Acres Boulevard, Scenic Acres Drive and Scenic Acres Link are the main roads through, and Bearspaw Dam Road crosses the south-west edge.
Crowfoot Station, on the Red Line, is on Crowchild Trail at the community’s north-east edge. Two regular routes carry the community’s name: Route 97 South Ranchlands/Scenic Acres and Route 113 North Ranchlands/Scenic Acres both run through on Scurfield Drive and Scenic Acres Drive and connect to Crowfoot Station. Route 120 Silver Springs has a few stops inside, on Scenic Acres Boulevard, Scurfield Drive and Nose Hill Drive. Routes 40, 134 and 26 stop along the east edge. No MAX route stops in Scenic Acres. For Catholic students, school routes 836 (St. Vincent de Paul) and 813 and 820 (St. Francis) pick up inside Scenic Acres.
From the middle of Scenic Acres, a drive with no traffic works out to 14 minutes to the University of Calgary (11.5 kilometres) and 15 to Foothills Medical Centre (12.6 kilometres), as measured in September 2026. The Municipal Building downtown is 24 minutes (18.5 kilometres) and Calgary International Airport 22 (29.1 kilometres). Before you settle on a house, make the trip on a working day, at the hour you’d leave.
| Downtown | 24 min |
|---|---|
| University of Calgary | 14 min |
| Foothills Hospital | 15 min |
| Airport (YYC) | 22 min |
Schools
One public pathway and one Catholic pathway cover the whole of Scenic Acres.
As CBE publishes it in September 2026, the public designation from kindergarten to grade 5 is Scenic Acres School, which stands inside the community at 50 Scurfield Way NW. Twelve Mile Coulee School, 65 Tuscany Hills Road NW, across Stoney Trail in Tuscany, takes over for grades 6 to 9. Bowness High School, 4627 77 St NW in Bowness, covers grades 10 to 12.
As CSSD publishes it in September 2026, the Catholic pathway starts inside the community at Monsignor E.L. Doyle School, 8887 Scurfield Drive NW, for kindergarten to grade 6. Grades 7 to 9 are at St. Vincent de Paul School, 4525 49 Street NW in Varsity. For senior high it is St. Francis High School, a Collingwood school at 877 Northmount Drive NW, and St. Francis stays the designation under CSSD’s 2027-2028 high school boundaries.
École du Nouveau-Monde, at 220 Scenic Acres Drive NW, is also inside Scenic Acres. It is a francophone school run by FrancoSud, separate from both boards above.
Boards redraw designations from time to time, so before your conditions come off, put the house’s address into both boards’ lookup tools. The schools resource has more on catchments and choice programmes citywide.
Scenic Acres School
Public, K-5
Every Scenic Acres address starts here for kindergarten to grade 5, as CBE publishes it in September 2026. The school is at 50 Scurfield Way NW, within Scenic Acres. Run the address through CBE's Find a School tool.
Twelve Mile Coulee School
Public, 6-9
Across Stoney Trail in Tuscany, at 65 Tuscany Hills Road NW. As CBE publishes it in September 2026, it takes Scenic Acres students from grade 6 to grade 9. Run the address through CBE's Find a School tool.
Bowness High School
Public, 10-12
In Bowness, at 4627 77 St NW. As CBE publishes it in September 2026, it is the grade 10 to 12 designation for all of Scenic Acres. Run the address through CBE's Find a School tool.
Monsignor E.L. Doyle School
Catholic, K-6
As CSSD publishes it in September 2026, the Catholic elementary for Scenic Acres, from kindergarten through grade 6. It is at 8887 Scurfield Drive NW, within Scenic Acres. Run the address through CSSD's school finder.
St. Vincent de Paul School
Catholic, 7-9
A Varsity school, at 4525 49 Street NW, that takes Scenic Acres' Catholic students for grades 7 to 9, as CSSD publishes it in September 2026. Run the address through CSSD's school finder.
St. Francis High School
Catholic, 10-12
At 877 Northmount Drive NW, in Collingwood. As CSSD publishes it in September 2026, Scenic Acres' Catholic students go here for grades 10 to 12, and the 2027-2028 high school boundaries don't change that. Run the address through CSSD's school finder.
Frequently asked questions
What do homes sell for in Scenic Acres?
In the twelve months to August 2026, 86 homes changed hands in Scenic Acres. The typical sale was $736,750, and the middle half landed between $635,000 and $860,000. Detached houses made up 70 of those sales, at a typical $796,500 and from $552,000 to $1,825,000. The 12 semi-detached homes typically sold for $550,000, with a typical condo fee of $438 a month. The other 4 sales were row and townhouse homes, and no apartment sold. If it’s your own house you want priced, start with a home valuation.
Is there a homeowners association fee in Scenic Acres?
No. Scenic Acres has no residents or homeowners association fee. Its extra landscaping is paid for by a City of Calgary special tax, which Bylaw 2M2026 levies on every residential property in Scenic Acres and which is billed on the property tax bill. It is $66.83 for 2026, up from $63.65 in 2025. The tax dates from 2013, after two-thirds of property owners backed a petition for it, and the Scenic Acres Community Association runs the work as its LEAF programme. Membership in the association is optional and runs a year at a time. Where a home belongs to a condo corporation, its condo fee comes on top of the tax.
Why does the Scenic Acres price range start at $440,000?
That sale was a townhouse, and only 4 townhouses sold in Scenic Acres over the twelve months to August 2026. Detached houses sold from $552,000 to $1,825,000 at a typical $796,500, and semi-detached homes from $450,000 to $733,500 at a typical $550,000.
How does Scenic Acres compare with Silver Springs?
Over the twelve months to August 2026, Scenic Acres had 86 sales at a typical $736,750, and Silver Springs, across Nose Hill Drive, had 83 at a typical $698,500. Detached houses typically sold for $796,500 in Scenic Acres and $795,000 in Silver Springs. Half of Silver Springs’ detached houses sold within 14 days, and half of Scenic Acres’ within 22. Detached houses were 81.4% of sales in Scenic Acres and 66.3% in Silver Springs. Scenic Acres pays a City landscaping tax, $66.83 for 2026, and Silver Springs is not on the City’s special tax list.
What are the designated schools for Scenic Acres?
One pathway per board covers all of Scenic Acres. As CBE publishes it in September 2026, Scenic Acres is designated to Scenic Acres School, inside the community, for kindergarten to grade 5, then Twelve Mile Coulee School in Tuscany for grades 6 to 9 and Bowness High School in Bowness for grades 10 to 12. For Catholic school, as CSSD publishes it in September 2026, the designations begin at Monsignor E.L. Doyle School, inside Scenic Acres, from kindergarten to grade 6, with St. Vincent de Paul School in Varsity for junior high (grades 7 to 9) and St. Francis High School in Collingwood for senior high (grades 10 to 12). St. Francis remains Scenic Acres’ Catholic senior high under CSSD’s 2027-2028 high school boundaries. Before you rely on it for a particular house, run the address through both boards’ lookup tools, CBE’s Find a School and CSSD’s school finder.
Can you take the CTrain from Scenic Acres?
Yes. Crowfoot Station, on the Red Line, is on Crowchild Trail at the community’s north-east edge. Route 97 South Ranchlands/Scenic Acres and Route 113 North Ranchlands/Scenic Acres run through the community on Scurfield Drive and Scenic Acres Drive, and both connect to Crowfoot Station. No MAX route stops inside Scenic Acres.
What is Baker Park?
Baker Park is a City park at 9333 Scenic Bow Rd NW, at the south end of Scenic Acres on the valley floor. The City describes it as across the Bow River from Bowness Park and calls it “the most popular park for outdoor weddings.” It covers 12 hectares, with picnic areas, pathways, a grass amphitheatre, a river observation point, washrooms and a disc golf course, and the Greenway and the Trans Canada Trail run through it.
Sales data current as of 2026-08-31. Includes 86 residential sales in Scenic Acres over the twelve months to August 2026. Source: Pillar 9 MLS® System. Copyright 2026 Pillar 9. All Rights Reserved.
