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Photo: Iwona Erskine-Kellie from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
"Hatters" are proud supporters of their local WHL hockey team, the Medicine Hat Tigers. The games are fun and inexpensive, but tickets sell out within days of the season opener. An arena of 4006 seats houses some 3800 season ticket holders, leaving precious few remaining tickets to be snapped up.
The Medicine Hat Tigers are a Canadian major junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League (WHL) based in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Established in 1970, the team is tied with the Kamloops Blazers for the most Ed Chynoweth Cups as league champion with six, and have gone on to win two Memorial Cup titles. The Tigers also have seven Division titles. Since 2015, the Tigers play at Co-op Place after forty-five seasons at the Medicine Hat Arena.
World's Largest Teepee
Like many smaller prairie towns, Medicine Hat has a "largest" something. The World's Largest Teepee was constructed for the 1988 Winter Olympic games in Calgary. The city has added original First Nations artwork to the interior panels.
One of the largest continuously-poured concrete structures in the world, and a Heritage Site. It's a good example of "Gothic Revival" architecture.
A large multi-purpose cultural centre in downtown Medicine Hat. The facility features a more than 700 seat performing arts theatre, art gallery, museum, archives, gift shop, and café.
The world's largest chess set, it features full-sized three-dimensional pieces. The tallest piece, the king, is tall, and the heaviest piece, the knight, weighs in at approximately pounds. Passers-by are free to stop by for a game on this massive chess board.
Visit the Medicine Hat Brewing Company and learn more about their brewing process and some community history dating back to the early 1900s.
Medicine Hat Speedway
Alberta's only sanctioned National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) track and is a 1/4 mile in length. The seasons typically run from May till September, with events featuring jet and alcohol cars, bracket racing, and the NHRA National open, which attracts approximately 300 cars from all over North America.