Friday and Saturday Camping at Wabamun Lake Provincial Park

Welcome sign to Wabamun Lake Park

Friday 9/8/17

Today we decided to get out of the smoke so we moved east. We drove about 200 miles to Wabamun Lake Provincial Park. We decided we would stay there a couple of nights.

As we were leaving Jasper National Park we saw elk grazing along side of the road. The smoke seemed to be thicker today you couldn’t see any of the mountains. We did see the river flowing. We drove on a four lane highway to Wabamun Park. The drive was mainly plains. It was a relaxing drive and I napped a little. We stopped to fill up the Minnie in Edson. We saw a Tim Hortons and bought a couple of doughnuts and 10 doughnut holes, which were called Tim Bits.

We arrived at Wabamun Lake Park at 12:30 and checked in. The electric sites were almost full but we didn’t need any power so we were assigned a non-power sites. The office people were very friendly and helpful. The park does have showers but they are coin operated. The road to the loops was paved but the loops are dirt. The sites were smaller than the National Parks but very nice. Each site has a fire ring , picnic table and a lot of trees. Each loop has volt toilets and shared water.

Once we were settled in I made soup for lunch. We spent the afternoon relaxing in the Minnie. When it was time for dinner I heated up some pull pork and we had a couple of wraps with it.

Camping at Wabamun Lake Park

After dinner Larry and I went for a walk around the campground to see if we could get to the lake. We walked a trail through trees. It was a nice trail the only thing you have to watch out for are the roots of the trees in the trail. We got to the end of the trail and it ended in a lake front housing community. A couple from Canada was also there and we visited with them. They didn’t know how to get to the lake either. We walked around the neighborhood and saw some nice houses. When we got to the end of the road we turned around and went back to the campground. We walked for about an hour. It was a nice walk. I walked around the loop for fifteen minutes. Then we spent the rest of the night in the Minnie. LIFE IS GOOD!!!!  

The trail we walked

Saturday 9/9/17

During the night the rain came in so in the morning we woke to overcast skies and everything was wet. We couldn’t hike the little trail by the lake or do anything so we stayed around the Minnie and read. It rained a few times during the day so we didn’t even walk around the campground until after dinner. We walked for about thirty minutes. We got back and we sat in our chairs and enjoyed the campsite until the bugs started to pester us. We bagged the chairs and went inside for the rest of the night. We had a very relaxing day.