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Lethbridge’s High Level Bridge Alberta’s top engineering marvel to check out

LETHBRIDGE, AB – A local landmark is listed as the most must-see structure in Alberta.

The High Level Bridge was built over 100 years ago and has been a symbol of this city for decades.

It was recently listed as the number one engineering and geoscience marvel in the province.

The top ten list was put together by the Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta.

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The High Level Bridge or Lethbridge Viaduct as it’s officially know as, is 1,600 metres long and 96 metres high.

Other structures on the top 10 must-see list include the Glacier Skywalk in Jasper, the Bow Tower in Calgary, and the Big Rock Glacial Erratic in Okotoks.

You can see the full list here: Top 10 Alberta engineering and geoscience marvels to visit this summer

Top 10

  1. Lethbridge Viaduct High Level Bridge
  2. Leduc No. 1
  3. Glacier Skywalk
  4. Peace Bridge
  5. Bow Tower
  6. Walterdale Bridge
  7. Big Rock Glacial Erratic
  8. Icefields Parkway
  9. Brazeau Dam
  10. Oilsands Discovery Centre
Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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