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Popular Parks
What to see and do
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Grand Beach Provincial Park |
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Dunes 12 metres high and kilometres of inviting warm sand beach receive the gentle waves of the great prairie sea. This is Grand Beach, located on Lake Winnipeg - the sixth largest lake in Canada. The beach, considered one of the best in North America, beckons the sun worshipper in all of us. Travels to Grand Beach have been a tradition since the days of the carousel, the dance hall and train rides to the beach in the 1920s. Nowadays, nature's strong summer potion of sun, sand and water draws thousands of people from miles around.
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Piping Plover Update at Grand
Beach Provincial Park |
Since 1991 an International Census of the endangered
Piping Plover has been conducted every five years. 2006 marked the fourth
census. The number of birds in Manitoba has dropped on each count and this
census was no exception. Although a crack team of birders volunteered countless
hours and scoured all the known nesting areas and a few other suitable beaches
in the province only four pairs and possibly a single bird were counted. These
eight or nine birds were all identified along the west and east beaches in Grand
Beach Provincial Park....more.
Grand Beach campground, offers basic and electrically serviced sites. Cottage rentals are available adjacent to the park.
Leaving Winnipeg, take PTH 59 north, 80 km/49.7 mi. to the Grand Beach turnoff. Follow PTH 12
west 6 km./3.7 mi.
Park Map
- Grand Beach Provincial Park
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