Wesley Clover Parks

The Wesley Clover Parks are recreational parklands in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, located at the intersection of the 416 and 417 highways in the former city of Nepean.

[3] The riding school was also intended to provide access to athletics programs for girls, while the city's commitments to hockey rinks and sports fields were seen as mostly serving boys.

[1] At its conception, De Long intended the park to offer both English and Western riding lessons, as well as other disciplines such as driving and horse-drawn skiing.

The lease was eventually awarded to the Wesley Clover Foundation, a private not-for-profit philanthropic corporation associated with high-tech entrepreneur Terry Matthews.

The Parks will also host non-equestrian facilities,[7] such as several full-sized summer sports fields, a new home for the royal swans, an outdoor skating rink, skiing[8] and hiking trails, a campground, and a nature school for young children.

A state-of-the-art artificial turf soccer field was constructed at the east end of the Parks, close to the Queensway and Moodie Drive, for use as a practice facility during the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.