Has anyone ever camped in the Riverside area, in a site along the river? All sites are open to reserve for the week I want, and I am trying to decide which site is best. Any imput would be appreciated!

Looking to ask some questions to anyone who works as a ranger out in New Brunswick or Nova Scotia. Please message me 🤙

Never been too any of the Calgary parks or even west of London Ontario but this summer will be camping & touring around Calgary. Question, not sure of park bylaws but are cats allowed in parks on a harness.

I’m going to be down that way in early April, and was going to borrow a parks pass from my library. From what I can see, the park is open but the beaches are still closed. Is it still possible to go down there and park just to walk around a bit and take some scenery photos? Or is everything barricaded?

Thanks for any info anyone can give me.

I am looking for a hike recommendation in the area for some high alpine views. Have looked at Panorama Ridge and Black Tusk, I would if I could, but not sure everyone in our party can make the distance. Looking for something around 9-12 miles. We will be visiting the end of July, beginning of August.

hey everyone. does someone want to let me know how the rondeau park camping reservations work? the last 3 years i've tried to book camping there online, even set my alarm to wake up at 6am on the day they become available to reserve. and by 6:01 am they are all booked.....how does this happen? thanks

My ex and myself experienced this once in Algonquin Park...specifically Biggar Lake... we went to bed with no sound happening. When the sound started i dont know. my ex heard it all night, she said about 6 hrs worth. She woke me up half way through the night to hear it. She was pretty rattled having not been able to figure out the sound. She "shooshed" me quiet the second I awoke and I immediately "heard" (had a stronger presence then just a typical sound) the noice. she whispered "it has been going all night and moving down the hill in a descending zig zag". ...for some context, this was my ex's first back country trip in Algonquin, and only my second and my first being the one "in charge" so to speak. We were 4 or 5 days into our 7day canoe/ portage trip at this point and things were going flawlessly until this lake. I will touch on that after.
The sound I heard/felt was a sprinkling water static ratio type noice. My immediate thought was a water hose on the shower setting and something was spraying or watering the massive hill behind us. Okay, let me say it was not rain or any actual water. That's just the slight difference I could make out in tones between a standard white noise or radio static. It was a constant noice that wasn't affected by other sounds..it was over achingly present over everything else but not overwhelming. I felt spooked but not in danger so I said "it's just due falling from the leaves" my rationalization of it in the moment....it was probably between 1am and 3am at this point. I told her to go back to sleep. (Kinda what you do, there are always spooky sounds and your brain goes crazy? im pretty versed in camping just not this far out. I fell back to sleep hearing it. Woke up in the morning just b4 the sun rise and my ex was pin eyed wide awake still. The sound was still going on but seemed to almost dissolve into the surroundings and faided to nothing shortly after...this kinda debunked the due falling from leaves as the sun came up because the sun came up and no sound and no due falling....?
In regards to the lake. The entire lake is filled with these refrigerator sized boulders. Very close to the waters surface. I have no way to describe what we felt as we coasted into the lake other then having our energy sucked out of us....I know that sounds weird but not physical energy but emotional energy. I felt my presence drop from myself and my ex had the same experience. We actually stopped, looked at each other and commented on how we, all of a sudden, felt off or uneasy. We had zero reason to feel that way. We went about the usual activites of camp set up but I had this odd feeling of being watched or observed from that hill where the sound came ( it was everywhere) from later that night. I remember not liking the look any of the camp sites as we passed. The entire camp fire cooking time was horribly anxiety ridden for no apparent reason. I felt like I wanted to turn my back to the water and not be exposed to the woods. Only time iv felt like that out there.

We actually shorted the trip after that. Got the heck out of there. It wasn't an easy decision but something just changed and we felt really really down after that night.

So now it's 5 to 6 years later and as Iv started, whole heartedly, back into my "spiritual" jouney, trying to better myself. 2 days ago I had two conversations. One with my ex and one with my mother, about some pretty deep concepts. The conversation led to the concept of the sound in Algonquin. I got off the phone walked to my kitchen, took a deep breath and held for 10 or 15 seconds. I got tunnel vision, cold, sweaty, tingly all over, vision got pixilated (more then normal, iv always had colours when I close my eyes etc.) As all this is happening i start to "feel" the Algonquin sound coming on and i couldnt believe it. At this point I decided to just go to my knees and elbows and just experience it...lasted 40 seconds or more...had more of an intensity and volume ossilation then Algonquin but i 100% know every sound in my house. It wasn't only an outside sound it's like part of me infuenced it? I had one ear bud in and I swatted that out thinking that was it....nope. I really don't know what to think. I have some ideas about the source but I have never heard that sound b4 Algonquin Park Biggar Lake and haven't heard it expect this one time two days ago. This has been on my mind for years though. Please I'd love to talk more about this. I need answers. It's not cicadas I know that. It's winter here. totally different, it's not my tinnitus, I could specificly hear that as well during this last experience. Oh and FYI my ex has been sober for years she doesn't drink or do drugs. I spoke pot and have for years. Nothing was out of the ordinary on either of these occasions. I had smoked my normal amount on the trip and she was sober.
The odd time Iv experienced similar "blacking" out conditions where I go cold and tunnel vision and tingly but I do not passout these last about 60 seconds and I usually break it cause I start to get worried I'm hurting my brain lol. It's much easier to have this happen after taking a toke and holding it in as I do for most times I smoke cannabis. The funny part is it's the seconds after I hold my breath it starts not after having held for awhile. So I don't think it's hypoxia. I have experience with that too. The "blackout" "tunnel"iv experienced many time, while cycling ( avid cyclist once in my life lol) it can happen while driving and other dangerous activities but I never passout or even feel like I'm going to. I know what passing out feels like and I hate it, like HATE it. I passout everytime I have to get blood drawn HATE that feeling. And those experiences are not that feeling.

The next morning I felt horrible. Like I was hungover. My mom felt sick the next day and my dad stayed in bed all day no energy (not like him). My ex was "off" like no energy felt weird couldn't get her head on straight. We all had some form of anxious feeling. I had two visitors yesterday that, without getting into details, felt like wolves in sheep's clothing, if that makes sense to any religious ppl. It actually was a visit that stopped me from going out to do what I had intended that day.

B4 I called my mom and ex that evening of the sound experience. I was sitting in the dark meditating (2min in) and I said out loud to my kitchen (cause I felt like I could feel something or see something move...I live alone except when I have my weeks with my daughter) I said "does anyone here want to talk" ....

I'm a trades guy, pipe welder for the last 13 years, rough and tumble but I'm intouch with my emotions. I know manifestation works and I have had many experiences in my life where I have been "told" to look somewhere or at something, check a security camera etc and iv seen something potential dangerous happening and been able to stop or change the situation. Like intuition or whatever. I have also, from a young age, gotten very clear visions of events, usually like a developing picture of the past usually in the presence of other ppl. I can usually assume its of their past and members of my family and I have a sense of one another emotions and actions remotely.

I am also a science believer....
Feel like I'm pleading my case of sanity here lol

I have an interview for a park interpreter job coming up soon, for various parks across Ab. I was wondering if anyone else that has been through this process could tell me a bit about what to expect for the interview. And also maybe about what the job is like. Thank you!

Heading from Southwestern ON up to Sleeping Giant and looking to hit as many provincial parks as possible along the way. We have about 2.5 weeks total. Already hit everything south of Six Mile Lake, thanks!!

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