Prince Albert National Park

June 15, 2019

The sun was trying to peek through the clouds this morning but the big grey one was still there and fighting back.  Forecast called for rain all day.   

Debbie whipped up breakfast and then went for a shower and I broke camp.  We were on the road by 9:30 and heading for Prince Albert National Park.  

We retraced our steps for about 30 kms and then turned east towards Prince Albert.   The roads in Saskatchewan are pretty straight and Hwy # 3 is no different, cutting through large fields of freshly planted grain some as far as the eye can see. The rain fell in patches and but seemed to get heavier as we got nearer to Prince Albert. 

We arrived in Prince Albert and Debbie navigated us to the Canadian Superstore for groceries.  There was a street festival on main street and people were enjoying themselves despite the rain.  We will be visiting Prince Albert a little longer after we leave the park later this week.

Prince Albert National Park is approximately 90 kms north of Prince Albert and our friends Danny and Judy own a cabin in the park. We had made plans to see them and to enjoy the park.  Judy was born in Prince Albert and basically grew up in the park as her family owned a cabin in the park.   Danny is a retired school principal and a self made Saskatchewan historian and has a vast knowledge of Saskatchewan and its history.  He has entertained me with many stories of the places and people of this province.  I couldn’t wait to hear what he had to tell us about this place.

We pulled in front of their cabin by 4:30 and were greeted warmly.   We apologized for bringing the rain with us and they forgave us.  We toasted a bottle of Proseco to arriving in Saskatchewan enjoyed a tasty chicken dinner.  Danny had already made some plans for spending the next three days here and we were looking forward to them.  

He had some suggestions about alternative camp sites and so he took us to the reservation kiosk and spoke to Sabrina and introduced us to her.  Sabrina checked us in and then gave us a list of other sites that were available and suggested that we drive around and pick out one that we would like.  The original site we had chosen was nice but was not a full hook up site, which we kind of wanted for the duration that we would be here. We found one close to the shower building and drove back to the kiosk.  Sabrina patiently filled out our reservation forms and checked us in.  She truly is an ambassador for this park.

We settled into the camp site, enjoyed a shower and went to bed looking forward to our time here.