Landowner Rights & Trail User Responsibilities

The Waskahegan Trail is a unique resource that exists only because of the generosity of landowners. Before you set foot on the trail:

  1. Know the landowner rights and the trail user responsibilities.
  2. Check the trail conditions

North Hastings Lake and Allen Nature Trail Hike

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Beautiful blue sky, warm summer breezes and mosquitoes welcomed us at the trail head.

Blue skies of North Hastings Lake

Twelve hikers set out on the Canada Day weekend hike to North Hastings Lake and the Allen Nature Trail. We hiked through trees, over fields and detoured around sloughs.

After hiking the Allen Nature Trail, we stopped at the historic St. Margarets Church for lunch.

Bird's nest with four tiny blue eggsA short walk to North Hastings Lake to watch pelicans, ducks, and American Avocets. On the return we stopped to view a small nest with 4 tiny blue egg that the maintenance team had flagged for us. Bluebird?…Goldfinch?

Jerry showed us many different flowers including poisonous water hemlock, smooth aster and long leaved chickweed.

 

 

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Hikers at St. Margaret's Church

Clearing Wanisan

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Wanison Lake is a beautiful 2.9km section of our trail that connects to the Blackfoot Recreation Area. The mission was three fold for the crew working July 5th. First we blasted through the extreme growth and out to the farthest lookout on the alternative blue route. It showed the 3 plank boardwalks in need of a better solution to be solved later this year.

Our second purpose was to get the stopover ready for the fireside supper later in the week; which we did after our lunch break.

Third we had Terry GPSing for renewal of our recreational lease.We were glad to finish with the heat increasing and refresh at McDonald’s in Sherwood Park.