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"Environmentally Sensitive Area". Please be careful where you walk and try not to disturb the natural environment. For additional information please contact Tourism Saskatchewan. | ||
Prince Albert National Park | |||
| GPS: | 53d 35.11m N | 106d 03.01m W | 1664 feet |
| Location: | 60 kms north of Prince Albert | ||
Prince Albert National Park is nearly a million acres of forested wilderness and waterways. It is one of the most beautiful and complete four-season wilderness destinations in Saskatchewan. The area was declared a National Park in 1927. | |||
The park's gently rolling terrain is a mosaic of spruce bogs, large lakes and aspen uplands, the legacy of the glacial retreat some 10,000 years ago. | |||
For thousands of years, native people lived in this area. Archaeological evidence suggests that during the harsh winters, peoples of plains culture migrated northward to this area's more sheltered forests and intermingled with the resident forest culture. | |||
Moose, wolf, caribou and loons capture the essence of the northern forests. Elk, deer, badger and gound squiirel are a few of the inhabitants of the aspen parkland. | |||
Prince Albert National Park protects several unique heritage features of national significance. You can experience the park in may different ways. Hiking, canoeing, biking, boating, fishing, picnicking, backcountry camping are a few of these. | |||
The park is immense, covering some 388,000 hectares, or nearly one million acres of parkland and boreal forest with patches of prairie. One-fifth of the park is water - some 1,500 lakes and streams - supporting 23 species of fish. | |||
The world's most celebrated naturalist of the 1930s - Grey Owl - made his home here, in a log cabin on the shore of Ajawaan Lake. Known as 'Wash-a-quon-asin' (he who walks by night), Grey Owl was actually Archibald Belaney, a romantic from Hastings in England who decided to live out his boyhood fantasies and adopt an Indian name and persona. He became a celebrated lecturer and author and was a conservationist decades before ecological issues became fashionable. He used to retreat to the solace of his log cabin and Ajawaan Lake after his demanding lectures tours across the continent and England. His cabin still stands on the shores of the lake and has become a historic site. "Remember, you belong to nature, not it to you" are some of his famous words. | |||
| GPS: 53d 35.11m N, 106d 03.01m W, 1664 feet 11 July 96, 1:50 pm, Fuji Velvia 50, F8 1/250s | |||
| GPS: 53d 33.45m N, 105d 51.77m W, 1601 feet 11 July 96, 1:00 pm, Fuji Velvia 50, F8 1/15s | |||
| GPS: 53d 55.36m N, 106d 05.19m W, 1734 feet 02 Aug 96, 12:30 pm, Fuji Velvia 50, F8 1/125s | |||
