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Sprawling greenspaces, gorgeous gardens, playgrounds, dining, and more. Home to The Leaf and Assiniboine Park Zoo.

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Walk in the Park and a lunch date at Park Cafe? 🍂

Try this month's special: the Southeastern Turkey Bowl, featuring crispy fried turkey patties, roasted chilli corn, fresh veggies, black beans, feta, basmati rice, and cilantro-lime crema.

Pair it with a Sidewinder from Trans Canada Brewing Company, and you’ve got a lunch worth looking forward to. 🍻

Available at Park Café until October 31! by @assiniboine_park

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Take a trip to a tropical paradise without leaving Winnipeg! 🌿

Six stories up, the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden is home to tropical butterflies, lush plant life, and plenty to discover. Take a stroll through the garden and see these beautiful butterflies up close, any time of year. 🦋

Visit us at The Leaf! 💚 A person holds a child in a lush indoor butterfly garden. Several butterflies, including a prominent blue one, flutter nearby. Both are looking upward and smiling. Bright green foliage surrounds them. by @assiniboine_park

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It’s a beary special day! 🐻🍯 Today marks 100 years of Winnie-the-Pooh, the beloved children’s classic first published by A.A. Milne and brought to life by illustrator E.H. Shepard in 1926.

Winnie’s story has roots right here in Canada. The real Winnie was a black bear from Northern Ontario who was adopted by Winnipeg veterinarian Lieutenant Harry Colebourn during the First World War. The name “Winnie” came from Winnipeg, the city Colebourn called home.

Colebourn later donated Winnie to the London Zoo, where she became a favourite of a young Christopher Robin Milne. His love for the bear inspired his father, A.A. Milne, to create the stories we know and love today.

🍯 Here at Assiniboine Park, you can discover more of this incredible story at the Pooh Gallery at the Pavilion. Explore artifacts celebrating the real bear and the story behind the beloved character.

While you’re visiting, stop by the Nature Playground to see the statue of Lieutenant Harry Colebourn and Winnie the Bear! by @assiniboine_park

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The Leaf After Dark 🌿✨

A relaxed evening inside The Leaf @assiniboine_park with live music, tropical greenery and a completely different atmosphere after hours.

Grab a drink or snack, wander through the biomes at your own pace and take a couple of hours to slow down while it’s getting colder outside. Wine, beer and snacks are available during the event.

Upcoming 2026 dates:
🌿 October 21
🌿 November 4 & 18
🌿 December 9
⏰ 7:00–9:00 PM

📍 The Leaf @assiniboine_park | 145 The Leaf Wy, Winnipeg

Save this for a quieter kind of night out in Winnipeg.

#Winnipeg #WinnipegEvents #ThingsToDoWinnipeg #AssiniboinePark #DateIdeas by @assiniboine_park

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Prep your garden for fall with Craig! 🍁🍂

Join our Outdoor Horticultural Supervisor in the English Garden as he shares some of his fall gardening tips that you can implement in your garden at home. by @assiniboine_park

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Every year, thousands of migratory birds pass through Winnipeg on their journeys between the breeding and the wintering grounds.

Some will just pass through Winnipeg, but others stay for the summer to raise their young right here in Assiniboine Park. 🐣

For World Migratory Bird Day, we’re looking at this year's bird conservation work in the Park, from nest boxes to fledglings to the thousands of dots installed on windows to help prevent bird collisions. 🪺

Here’s what this year looked like by the numbers. ➡️ by @assiniboine_park

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Back in August, our Conservation and Research team joined partners at the Living Prairie Museum and here at the Park, as part of a national research project led by Environment and Climate Change Canada to safely capture, tag, and release monarch butterflies to track their migration south.

After travelling over 2,300 kilometres in just 40 days, we’re excited to share that our first tagged monarch, MB26011, has crossed the border into Mexico! 🎉🇲🇽

Data collected from MB26011 and the other tagged monarchs will help us better understand their migration patterns, pinch points in their travels, and which areas we can protect to support future migration seasons to come.

Follow the journey of the rest of our tagged butterflies through the Project Monarch app! Look for the monarchs tagged by our team, labelled MB26. 🦋 by @assiniboine_park

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While most of the plants in Fabled Woods are moody and mysterious, some are a little more... touchy. 🤭

Learn more about the sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica) with Rhonda our Horticulture Supervisor at The Leaf.

Come see this fascinating plant for yourself at Fabled Woods, on now at The Leaf! 🌱 by @assiniboine_park

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The crunch of leaves, the sound of geese overhead, sunflowers and mums in the garden, pumpkins set up for Boo at the Zoo, tasty specials at the Park Café and Gather Craft Kitchen & Bar, and a new display at The Leaf. 🍂

It’s fall in the Park! 🫶 by @assiniboine_park

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Meet Megan, part of our Horticulture team in the Heart of the Park. 🌱 We asked her to snap some photos this past season and answer a few questions.

What is your favourite thing about gardening in the Park?☀️

It’s been really fantastic to be working outside. I have loved watching the gardens grow and bloom over the last few months, and I’ve never received more compliments about my job! People really seem to appreciate the effort we put in and I’m proud of that too.

What is your favourite plant? 🌸

This may not too exciting but I’ve been obsessed with the pink salvia we planted because it has the most entrancing scent! None of the other colours or varieties have it, and I only figured that out by taking the time to stop and smell each one. It’s like that old saying. ☺️

Gardening tip:🪻

Try something new! Plant something you’ve never had before, change up a colour scheme or pattern, and dont forget to add some native pollinator plants for our small garden friends. When the growing season is short, you should take advantage and let some creativity come through.

Caterpillar about to change, with my favourite salvia in the Nature Playground 🐛

A beautiful sunrise as seen from the top of the Nature Playground slide 🛝

The Leaf on the best weather day of the summer ☀️

The raised beds in all their glory at the Nature Playground 🌳

Frog hiding out in The Pavilion pond 🐸

Monarch on a sunflower in one of The Leaf’s planters 🌻

Peony bud across from The Lyric 🎵

Regular visitors to the Nature Playground gate 🦌

This fawn posed for me in the buckthorn one day on the way in to work 😊 taken in Assiniboine Park by @assiniboine_park

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Fall is here, and so is Park Café’s new menu! 🍂

Come visit us to try the Harvest Squash Skillet, Nashville Chicken Benedict, Italian Beef Dip Sandwich, Winter Cobb Salad, and more! 🍳🥞🥗🥪

See you soon at Park Café, open daily from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm! ☕ taken in The Park Cafe At Assiniboine Park by @assiniboine_park

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