Clear Lake
Swimming and paddling.
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Riding Mountain National Park sits on top of the Manitoba Escarpment in south-western Manitoba, about 218 km in a straight line north-west of Winnipeg. Its forested uplands, covering about 2,970 square kilometres, rise sharply above the flat prairie farmland around them, and its southern entrance is the resort village of Wasagaming on Clear Lake. The park protects three ecosystems that meet here: prairie grassland, northern boreal forest and eastern deciduous forest. Elk, moose, black bears and wolves live in its forests, and a herd of plains bison grazes in a large enclosure near Lake Audy, where a road lets visitors watch them from their cars. Cree, Assiniboine and Ojibwe peoples have lived in the area for thousands of years. Wasagaming has a sandy beach, a pier and a log-built visitor centre on Clear Lake, a clear, deep lake popular for swimming, paddling and boat trips. More than 400 km of trails cross the park for hiking, cycling and, in winter, cross-country skiing, and lookouts on the escarpment's eastern edge give wide views over the plains. A national park entrance fee applies. Summer is the busy season, while autumn brings golden aspen forests and the bugling of elk.
Swimming and paddling.
Watch from your car.
Views over the plains.
Wasagaming, Manitoba, Canada
Yes, the national park entrance fee.
In the enclosure near Lake Audy.