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The Best Attractions In Slave Lake

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The Great Slave Lake is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada , the deepest lake in North America at 614 metres , and the tenth-largest lake in the world. It is 469 km long and 20 to 203 km wide. It covers an area of 27,200 km2 in the southern part of the territory. Its given volume ranges from 1,070 km3 to 1,580 km3 and up to 2,088 km3 making it the 10th or 12th largest. The lake shares its name with the First Nations peoples called Slavey by their enemies the Cree. Towns situated on the lake include Yellowknife, Hay River, Behchokǫ̀, Fort Resolution, Łutselk'e, Hay River Reserve, Dettah, and Ndilǫ. The only community in t...
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  • 1. Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park Slave Lake
    Lesser Slave Lake is located in central Alberta, Canada, northwest of Edmonton. It is the second largest lake entirely within Alberta boundaries , covering 1,160 km2 and measuring over 100 km long and 15 km at its widest point. Lesser Slave Lake averages 11.4 m in depth and is 20.5 m at its deepest. It drains eastwards into the Athabasca River by way of the Lesser Slave River. The town of Slave Lake is located at the eastern tip of the lake, around the outflow of Lesser Slave River.
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  • 2. Boreal Centre for Bird Conservation Slave Lake
    The boreal woodland caribou , also known as woodland caribou, woodland caribou and forest-dwelling caribou, is a North American subspecies of the reindeer with the vast majority of animals in Canada. Unlike the Porcupine caribou and barren-ground caribou, boreal woodland caribou are primarily, but not always, sedentary.The boreal woodland caribou is the largest of the caribou subspecies and is darker in colour than the barren-ground caribou. Valerius Geist, specialist on large North American mammals, described the true woodland caribou as ”the uniformly dark, small-manned type with the frontally emphasized, flat-beamed antlers which is scattered thinly along the southern rim of North American caribou distribution.” Geist asserts that ”the true woodland caribou is very rare, in very g...
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  • 3. Lesser Slave Lake Slave Lake
    Lesser Slave Lake is located in central Alberta, Canada, northwest of Edmonton. It is the second largest lake entirely within Alberta boundaries , covering 1,160 km2 and measuring over 100 km long and 15 km at its widest point. Lesser Slave Lake averages 11.4 m in depth and is 20.5 m at its deepest. It drains eastwards into the Athabasca River by way of the Lesser Slave River. The town of Slave Lake is located at the eastern tip of the lake, around the outflow of Lesser Slave River.
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  • 4. Carson-Pegasus Provincial Park Whitecourt
    Carson-Pegasus Provincial Park is a provincial park located in central Alberta, Canada within Woodlands County. The park is located around McLeod Lake and Little McLeod Lake , approximately 23 km north of Whitecourt. It is accessed by Highway 32.The park protects the boreal forest ecosystem with aspen, balsam poplar, balsam fir and white spruce, as well as the willow/alder shorelines, black spruce bogs, grass marshes, and fens. The park is also a fishing spot and a habitat for diverse mammals and birds.
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  • 5. Cooking Lake, Blackfoot Grazing Wildlife Provincial Recreation Area Alberta
    North Cooking Lake is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Strathcona County. It is located on Highway 630 and on the northeast shore of Cooking Lake, approximately 24 kilometres southeast of Sherwood Park. It is 4 kilometres south of the Waskehegan Staging Area entrance to Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Grazing, Wildlife Provincial Recreation Area. Due to the multiple lakes nearby with sandy beaches, North Cooking Lake was known as one of Edmonton's recreation and resort spots in the early 1900s . It was so popular that special trains operated to bring vacationers to the North Cooking Lake Station where steamers and motor boats delivered them to different resorts. Once a teeming playground, North Cooking Lake is now a peaceful residential retreat.
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  • 6. Kinbrook Island Provincial Park Alberta
    Kinbrook Island Provincial Park is a provincial park in Alberta, Canada. The park is situated at an elevation of 770 m and has a surface of 11 km2 . It was established on November 14, 1951 and is maintained by Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation. It is situated on the eastern shore of Lake Newell, 12 km south of the city of Brooks and within the County of Newell.
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  • 7. Thunder Lake Provincial Park Barrhead
    Thunder Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park located in Alberta, Canada, and is located 140 kilometres west of Edmonton, on the shore of the park features setting for boating, water-skiing, swimming, running, fishing and camping. Thunder lake is approximately 21 kilometres West of the nearest town, Barrhead. The park is located on the north-western shore of Thunder Lake. The lake itself has a total water surface of 7.03 km2 and reaches a maximum depth of 6.1 m . The main fish found are Northern Pike.
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