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There will be plenty of happy campers around Saskatchewan on Monday as provincial parks begin taking reservations for the season.
Bookings for seasonal campsites can be made on Monday, but campers will need to wait a few more days to book group sites, day-use facilities, camp-easy yurts and swimming lessons.
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Bookings can be made on the Saskatchewan Parks website starting at 7 a.m. each day, and a queuing system will be in place.
Robin Campese with SaskParks told The Greg Morgan Morning show this week that seasonal campsites are easily their best sellers.
“We have more demand than sites there, and we add new ones every year. This year, there’ll be 59 new seasonal sites available for reservation,” she said.
She suggested people who want to make reservations make use of the “favourite” button on the website..
“I’ve done this myself. It makes booking so much faster, so much easier. Favourite, your first, second, third choice — using that ‘favourite’ button is absolutely critical.
“You’re not searching through a whole bunch of sites. You know what you want. You just go to that favourite button. You grab that site, and you put it in your cart,” said Campese.
If people miss the reservation window or aren’t able to grab the site they want, Campese said patience is the key.
“Lots of cancellations happen after reservation launch. So what you need to do with that is you need to go into the availability notifications functionality and add your site and the stay that you’re interested in, and if that site becomes available, or even partially available, you’ll get notification of that, and you’ll be able to pop on the site and book it,” said Campese.
The complete reservation schedule is:
Seasonal campsites:
Monday, April 13
Nightly, Camp-Easy yurt and group campsites as well as day-use facilities and swimming lessons:
Tuesday, April 14: Candle Lake, Good Spirit Lake, Lac La Ronge, Meadow Lake, Rowan’s Ravine, and Saskatchewan Landing;
Wednesday, April 15: Blackstrap, Bronson Forest, Buffalo Pound, Duck Mountain, Moose Mountain, Porcupine Hills;
Thursday, April 16: Crooked Lake, Cypress Hills, Danielson, Great Blue Heron, Greenwater Lake, and The Battlefords;
Friday, April 17: Douglas, Echo Valley, Fort Carlton, Makwa Lake, Narrow Hills, Pike Lake.
Annual, weekly and daily entry permits can also be purchased online or in person at provincial parks, the ministry noted.
This year, anyone with a Saskatchewan Accessible Parking Program permit issued by Sask Abilities will get a 25 per cent discount on entry permits to provincial parks.
“The discount off daily, weekly and annual entry permits must be applied in person at the park, where the placard can be presented at the time of purchase,” the ministry said.
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