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Liquor now permitted at select provincial parks day-use sites

Jun 28, 2019 | 10:39 AM

Just in time for the Canada Day Long Weekend, the province has announced the list of 14 day-use area picnic sites where Albertans can legally consume liquor.

Officials say all approved day-use area picnic sites will include signage indicating permitted liquor consumption from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Liquor is now permitted with food consumption at the following sites:

South Region

• Beauvais Lake Provincial Park (Beaver Creek day use)

• Cypress Hills Provincial Park (East Elkwater day use)

• Dinosaur Provincial Park (main day use)

Kananaskis Country

• Little Elbow Provincial Recreation Area (Forget-me-not Pond day use)

• Spray Valley Provincial Park (Wedge Pond day use)

• Fish Creek Provincial Park (Hulls Wood day use)

• Cobble Flats Provincial Recreation Area (Cobble Flats day use)

Central Region

• Miquelon Lake Provincial Park (main day use)

• Pigeon Lake Provincial Park (main day use)

• William A. Switzer Provincial Park (Kelly’s Bathtub day use)

Northeast Region

• Sir Winston Churchill Provincial Park (day-use C picnic shelter)

• Beaver Lake Provincial Recreation Area (day-use picnic shelter

• Whitney Lakes Provincial Park (Ross Lake day-use shelter)

Northwest

• Saskatoon Island Provincial Park (main day use)