Beaver Glen campground, Prince Albert National Park. Photo courtesy Sask Tourism on Facebook, original by @anothernate on Instagram
Parks Canada is providing $5.4 million to improve public spaces at Prince Albert National Park.
The federal announcement, made on Tuesday, covers multi-year campground construction in all front country campgrounds – Beaver Glen, Red Deer, Narrows, Sandy Lake and Namekus Lake – at a cost of more than $3 million. The work includes infrastructure upgrades, improved drainage, and improving the campsites.
There will also be $1.5 million to replace the public washrooms at the Waskesiu Lake beach.
The final upgrade is $500,000 to the Spruce Rich Campground washroom, which is used mostly by seasonal staff. Work is already underway on that project.
Albert National Park gets about 250,000 visitors each year and is home to the infamous Grey Owl’s cabin, where famous conservationist and English man Archibald Stansfeld Belaney lived in 1934. He spent a large part of his adult life fraudulently portraying himself as an Indigenous man.