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Sandbanks Provincial Park is a provincial park located on Lake Ontario in Prince Edward County near Picton, Ontario, Canada. The park is considered one of the best sandy beaches in Ontario and contains the largest bay-mouth barrier dune formation in the world. The 1,550.87-hectare (3,832.3-acre) park was established in 1970 and operates year round.
The history of Ontario's provincial parks stretches for over 100 years. Here are some of the milestones from the past century plus: [3] 1893 – Algonquin Park is created as a public park and forest reservation, fish and game preserve, health resort and pleasure ground. 1894 – Rondeau becomes Ontario's second provincial park.
Provincial Parks are authorized under Provincial Parks Act, a Revised Statutes of Ontario created in 1913 and excluded their lands from agriculture or settlement and the park it self is created under unconsolidated Regulations.
The community is located on the shore of both Lake Ontario and West Lake in the southwest of the county. Sandbanks Beach, the northernmost of Sandbanks Provincial Park 's beaches, is located in the Village of Wellington, where it is called Wellington Rotary Beach.
The sandy beaches at the Park are part of a 17-mile (27 km) length of sandy shore between Sandy Pond to the south and Black Pond to the north. Another comparable stretch of sandy beach on Lake Ontario is at Sandbanks Provincial Park in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada, which is along the northeastern shore of the lake. These are the main ...
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The island is currently part of the Sandbanks Provincial Park, visitors are allowed, after getting the permission of the park superintendent. [5] Most of the island is covered by an oak-hickory forest. Plants rare to eastern Ontario are found on the island. The island provides a resting spot for birds on their annual migration.
As of 2011, there were more than 1500 Category II-listed areas across the country, including nearly 700 in B.C., and at least 500 in Ontario. Only Quebec uses the term “national park” for such provincial areas, using the IUCN's category name as justification.