The High Level Bridge spans the Oldman River valley and is visible from much of Lethbridge, its black steel trestle rising 96 metres above the valley floor. Built in 1909 for the Canadian Pacific Railway, it carries trains across the river coulee and is still in active freight use today. From the valley floor in Indian Battle Park, the scale of it is genuinely impressive — the steel lattice towers above you and the bridge stretches away into the distance, dwarfing everything below.
The best view is from the valley bottom. Several trails in Indian Battle Park lead to vantage points directly beneath the span, and looking up from there gives a clear sense of why this structure attracted so much engineering attention when it was built. Walking the park trails along the Oldman River, with the bridge overhead and the coulee walls rising around you, is the most photogenic experience Lethbridge has to offer.