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Falcon Lake in Whiteshell Provincial Park. This is a list of provincial parks in Manitoba. Manitoba's provincial parks are maintained by the Department of Natural Resources and Northern Development (previously by Manitoba Environment and Climate), a department of the Government of Manitoba. [1] [2]
Pinery Provincial Park is a provincial park located on Lake Huron near Grand Bend, Ontario. It occupies an area of 25.32 square kilometres (6,260 acres). It is a natural environment-class Provincial Park created to help preserve oak savannah and the beach dune ecology. It has 1,275 sites of which 404 have electrical hookups.
The Old Ausable Channel is a self-contained waterway in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada that runs through the Pinery Provincial Park and the community of Grand Bend.It is a 14 kilometre long river channel that was isolated from the Ausable River by the digging of canals for drainage in the late nineteenth century.
The Government of Manitoba designated the area a provincial park in 1964. [2] The park is 269 square kilometres (104 sq mi) in size. [3] The park is considered to be a Class II protected area under the IUCN protected area management categories. [4] In 2020 it was designated a Canadian Dark-Sky Preserve by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
Riding Mountain National Park, Duck Mountain Provincial Park, and Asessippi Provincial Park are also located in the region, as well as Manitoba's highest point, Baldy Mountain. Together with the Westman Region to the south, Parkland composes the broader Prairie Mountain region, [2] and is provided health services via Prairie Mountain Health. [3]
It was designated a provincial park by the Government of Manitoba in 1985. [2] The park is 250,000 square metres (62 acres) in size. [2] The park is considered to be a Class V protected area under the IUCN protected area management categories. [3] The park is home to such fish species as walleye, northern pike, catfish, and smallmouth bass; and ...
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Forest - This region is the second largest (the boreal being the largest), and is located from southeastern Manitoba to the Gaspé Peninsula. [ 8 ] Montane Forest Region - Located in the west of Canada, this region covers parts of the Kootenays , the central plateau of British Columbia, and a number of valleys close to ...
It is the northernmost provincial park in Manitoba, and borders the southern Nunavut border. It is known for its remote backcountry camping experience. [1] The park is 7,640 square kilometres (2,950 sq mi) in size, [2] and was designated a provincial park by the Government of Manitoba in 1995. [2]