New yurts at Childs Lake Campground in Duck Mountain Provincial Park can be able to welcome visitors in mid-August, a undertaking accomplished underneath the Manitoba authorities’s new Provincial Parks Infrastructure Renewal Technique, Pure Assets and Northern Growth Minister Greg Nesbitt introduced at present.
“We all know many Manitoba campers are desperate to expertise our lovely provincial parks by tenting in a yurt, and that’s the reason I’m excited to announce that 4 new yurts can be able to welcome visitors throughout the subsequent few weeks,” mentioned Nesbitt. “That is certainly one of many tasks which are underway and being developed as a part of our authorities’s new parks technique that we unveiled in Could. This daring plan prioritizes tasks that improve leisure alternatives and defend our valuable ecosystems.”
With blue-green water fed by recent springs, the Childs Lake Campground is positioned in Duck Mountain Provincial Park, which rises in lengthy hills close to the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border. Yurts in Manitoba’s provincial parks–distinctive, giant, fabric-sided lodging which are half cabin, half tent–are extraordinarily widespread with campers and this new improvement involves additional fulfill this demand, the minister famous.
It’s anticipated that the 4 new yurts can be prepared by Aug. 18. Reservations for the brand new yurts will open Aug. 10 at 9 a.m. For extra info, go to www.manitobaparks.com.
As a part of the $220 million Manitoba Provincial Parks Infrastructure Renewal Technique, campers will see a 50 per cent enhance in yurts, extra campsites with electrical service, enhanced interactive experiences together with improved providers and entry to nature in every of the 20 busiest provincial parks. The technique focuses on two streams that make investments $121 million in parks infrastructure and $103 million in roadway renewal inside and round provincial parks over the subsequent 10 years.
To study extra in regards to the Manitoba Provincial Parks Infrastructure Renewal Technique and think about the record of tasks, go to www.gov.mb.ca/nrnd/parks/parks-strategy.html.
For the reason that Provincial Parks Act was proclaimed in 1960, there have been 93 parks established in Manitoba together with the designation of Pemmican Island Provincial Park in July.
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