Camping season is upon us, as are nearly 130 active wildfires and a blistering heat wave.
All of that is causing some campers to stay home, and campsites to shut down.
“In a couple of our more northern parks, we have seen some cancellations,” Jennifer Johnson, the assistant deputy minister in the Parks Division of the Ministry of Parks, Culture and Sport, said Thursday.
“There are fires near Meadow Lake Provincial Park and Lac La Ronge Provincial Park, and so we have actually proactively closed some of our more remote campgrounds that are even closer to the fires.
“(In) some of our other campgrounds that aren’t impacted by the fires directly but are impacted by the smoke, we’ve been seeing some campers choosing to cancel their reservations.”