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Beaver Glen Campground – Waskesiu Lake – Prince Albert National Park – review

November 7, 2016 by acrockofschmidt 2 Comments

They may not have heard of Grasslands National Park and they may have reflexively cringed at the utterance of Pike Lake Provincial Park but there’s not a Saskatchewanian who doesn’t know Waskesiu and they unabashedly love the place.  Now that I too have visited this mythical vacationland in Prince Alberta National Park I fully understand, […]

Filed Under: Camping Schmidt Tagged With: Beaver Glen, camping, Canada, Prince Albert NP, Saskatchewan, Waskesiu

Pike Lake Provincial Park – review

October 24, 2016 by acrockofschmidt 2 Comments

It’s never a good sign when your friends from the area respond to the revelation of where you’re camping with scrunched up faces and incredulous declarations that, “Nobody goes to Pike Lake!”  That’s not a particularly ringing endorsement even if it was uttered at least partly in jest.  This reaction weighed on my mind as […]

Filed Under: Camping Schmidt Tagged With: camping, Pike Lake, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon

Frenchman Valley Campground – Grasslands National Park – review

October 10, 2016 by acrockofschmidt 5 Comments

It is odd, though so very true, that we are often ignorant of that which is nearest us.  I grew up in a small tourist town in which the downtown is filled with small shops selling knickknacks and wares to busloads of tourists.  A great many people from all over Ontario and even Canada have […]

Filed Under: Camping Schmidt Tagged With: camping, Canada, Frenchman Valley, Grasslands, Saskatchewan, West Block

Cypress Hills Provincial Park – review

September 26, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Calgarians may look east to vent their political frustrations and mainstream media angst, but when it comes to recreation they inevitably gaze westward.  Be it Alberta’s own Kananaskis Country and Rocky Mountain parks or further afield in the summer playgrounds of British Columbia like the Okanagan, Shuswap, and Invermere, it’s hard to blame them for […]

Filed Under: Camping Schmidt Tagged With: Alberta, camping, Cypress Hills, Elkwater, mountains, Prairies, Saskatchewan

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