Province plans to upgrade parks to create “accessible experiences”

LETHBRIDGE – Five provincial parks will be “refurbished” this summer, to allow for seniors and those who may have disabilities to have better access to them.

Environment Minister Shannon Phillips says it’s part of a $3 million plan this year. The new sites represent all regions of the province and include:

• Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park
• Bow Valley Provincial Park- Mount Lorette Pond
• Pigeon Lake Provincial Park
• Sir Winston Churchill Provincial Park
• Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park

The parks will have what will be called the “Cecile Buhl One-Kilometre Experience,” which includes, as the name suggests, one kilometre throughout each of the parks with parking and washroom facilities accessible to everyone.