Grass River Provincial Park

Manitoba Provincial Park Of About 2,280 Square Kilometres On The Grass River; A Fur Trade Route Travelled By Samuel Hearne In 1774, With More Than 150 Lakes And The Boundary Between Boreal Forest And Canadian Shield Running Through It · Cranberry Portage, Manitoba

The GRASS RIVER was a fur trade highway - SAMUEL HEARNE CAME THROUGH IT IN 1774 on his way to build Cumberland House, and the route linked the Saskatchewan system to the Nelson and on to Hudson Bay. The park protects about two thousand two hundred and eighty square kilometres of it, with MORE THAN A HUNDRED AND FIFTY LAKES strung along the river, and it sits exactly where the Canadian Shield meets the boreal plain, so the geology and the forest change as you move across it. The classic trip is the GRASS RIVER CANOE ROUTE, several hundred kilometres of historic waterway that can be run in sections or in full. Highway 39 crosses the park and gives road access to campgrounds, launches and the KARST SPRING trail, where an underground river emerges from limestone - a genuinely odd thing to find in northern Manitoba. Woodland caribou range the northern parts.

Highway 39 between Cranberry Portage and Wekusko, northern Manitoba, Cranberry Portage, Manitoba, Canada

THE PARK IS OPEN YEAR-ROUND WITH A MANITOBA PARKS VEHICLE PERMIT required, sold daily or annually and inexpensive. THE MAIN SEASON RUNS ROUGHLY MID-MAY TO EARLY SEPTEMBER, when the campgrounds, launches and day-use areas operate; camping is first-come or reservable depending on the campground. HIGHWAY 39 CROSSES THE PARK and is maintained year-round, giving road access to several lakes, the Karst Spring trail and the campgrounds. THE GRASS RIVER CANOE ROUTE runs several hundred kilometres and is normally done in sections with vehicle shuttles; BACKCOUNTRY CAMPING ALONG IT IS PERMITTED with no developed sites. WINTER BRINGS SNOWMOBILING AND ICE FISHING. Forest fire closures are common in dry summers and are absolute. Cranberry Portage and Flin Flon have the nearest services.

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