Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) has released its 2024 Holiday Train schedule, and it looks like there won't be any stops in Foothills County this year.
The Holiday Train has been an annual tradition since 1999, travelling across the U.S. and Canada each holiday season and stopping in hundreds of towns and cities for free live music and to collect donations for local food banks.
This year, it will make 167 stops across seven provinces and 13 states between Nov. 21 and Dec. 20.
Of those, 21 events are being held in Alberta.
In 2023, the train stopped in Okotoks for the first time in four years, but it won't be returning to the town or the county this winter.
The train's Alberta trip begins with its southernmost stop, Medicine Hat, on Dec. 8, heading northwest into Central Alberta and making several stops before arriving in Edmonton on Dec. 12.
It will then head south, stopping four more times before reaching Calgary on Dec. 14.
From there, the train will pivot westward, stopping in Cochrane, Stoney Nakoda, Canmore, and Banff before starting the B.C. leg of the tour.