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Hilliard's Bay Campground Alberta Provincial Park.

Hilliard's Bay Campground and Provincial Park is located next to Lesser Slave Lake approximately 122km west of the town of Slave Lake. Approximately 398km north of the City of Edmonton. There are a total of 189 well kept campsites. This campground offers camping for both tents and larger RV's, group camping, clean small sandy beach, canoeing & kayaking, play grounds, picnic shelters, public phone, showers, water, power, fire wood, picnic tables, sani dump, swimming areas, boat launch, fish cleaning stations, ice fishing, hiking, wildlife watching and snowmobiling off site. The campsites are well treed and located in the surrounding Aspen and Spruce forest. Hilliard's Bay and Lesser Slave Lake has excellent northern Pike, Lake Whitefish, Walleye and Yellow Perch fishing, you'll need a fishing license to try your luck. The bridge on the highway at Grouards Channel is often full of fisherman. Hilliard's Bay campground is great for families with young children, the kids can spend hours at the beach and nearby playgrounds. Lesser Slave lake is one of Alberta's largest lakes and is excellent for power boats, waterskiing, sailing, windsurfing, canoeing and kayaking. Be careful on the water here, severe dangerous winds often blow in and quickly turn this lake into a boaters nightmare. Lesser Slave Lake is part of the Athabasca River drainage basin and has an approximate total surface area of 1160sqkm with an average depth of 11.4m, maximum depth of 20.5m. Hilliard's Bay Provincial Park also attracts a large variety of migrating waterfowl and is a great place for birders. For those who like to hike or mountain bike there is a 5.5km trail that follows the lakeshore. Marten River Campground is located approximately 154km east of here. Night skies here rank #3 on the Bortle Scale. This is bear country, food and food related items must be stored properly.

See the official web site link below for fees, opening and closing dates.

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