The Forks
A historic site, meeting place and green space in downtown Winnipeg, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. People have gathered here for thousands of years, and it now holds a market and riverside paths.
- Where
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- 49.8869, -97.1306
Get the The Forks stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at The Forks. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Manitoba volume with your photos and a note.
Near The Forks
Canadian Museum for Human Rights 0.4 km
A national museum in Winnipeg beside The Forks, run as a Canadian Crown corporation. Its purpose is to explore the subject of human rights, with a special but not exclusive reference to Canada.
Pimachiowin Aki 195 km
A boreal forest of lakes, rivers and wetlands on the Manitoba and Ontario border, the homeland of Anishinaabe communities. It became a World Heritage Site in 2018 as a living cultural landscape, and access is mostly by water or air.
Riding Mountain National Park 233 km
A national park of 2,969 square kilometres on top of Riding Mountain on the Manitoba Escarpment. Its forested parkland contrasts sharply with the surrounding prairie, and the town of Wasagaming sits on Clear Lake.
Sleeping Giant Provincial Park 623 km
A 244 square kilometre park on the Sibley Peninsula in northwestern Ontario, east of Thunder Bay. Established in 1944 as Sibley Provincial Park and renamed in 1988, it is named for a rock formation that looks like a sleeping figure.
Mall of America 631 km
The largest shopping mall in the United States and the Western Hemisphere, opened in 1992 on the site of the old Metropolitan Stadium near Minneapolis. Beyond its hundreds of shops it holds an indoor theme park, Nickelodeon Universe, and an aquarium.
Grasslands National Park 753 km
A national park near the village of Val Marie in southern Saskatchewan, just north of the Montana border. It protects one of the last areas of native prairie in Canada, along with badlands and wide open skies.
Prince Albert National Park 778 km
A national park of 3,874 square kilometres in central Saskatchewan, about 200 kilometres north of Saskatoon. It was declared a national park on 24 March 1927 and holds forests, lakes and plains bison.
Badlands National Park 795 km
Nearly 100,000 hectares of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and gullies in southwestern South Dakota, banded in shades of grey, tan and red. Around them lies the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States, and the South Unit is managed together with the Oglala Lakota.
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Questions
Where is The Forks?
The Forks is in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Canadian Museum for Human Rights (0.4 km), Pimachiowin Aki (195 km), Riding Mountain National Park (233 km).
How do I get the The Forks stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at The Forks and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Manitoba volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to The Forks before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Manitoba volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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