Record stores in Canmore

Vinyl hunting in Canmore, AB? There are 2 record shops mapped here. That's 2 record shops mapped around Canmore. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. The new-arrivals bin is always the first stop — that's where the good stuff lands before anyone else sees it.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Canmore (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include The Nook and Canmore Folk Music Festival Merch Tent. If a record shop's missing from Canmore's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Canmore record lineup

2 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Canmore

None of the 2 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Record shops keep fairly standard retail hours; daytime visits are a safe bet.

The Canmore record crawl

The efficient Canmore record crawl strings these together: The Nook and Canmore Folk Music Festival Merch Tent — 2 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Canmore

Digging in Canmore? A few habits pay off:

• The dollar bin is honest work at The Nook. Nobody's getting rich off the dollar bin, but the joy-per-dollar ratio is unbeatable. Flip through all of it.
• Ask about want-list services at Canmore Folk Music Festival Merch Tent. Good shops will keep an eye out for your grails. It takes patience, but the call when it lands is worth it.
• Learn the grading. Mint, near mint, very good — and check whether the grade is visual or play-graded. A visual VG+ can play like an EX.
• Don't clean records with your shirt. A proper brush costs little and saves grooves. Shirt fibres and spit are how records get ruined.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Canmore — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Canmore can take a while to appear. The 2 above are only as current as the community map. A record store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 2 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.