It is a huge disappointment for us when we find that the Children’s Museum at The Forks is closed for maintenance and training. What a let down! This is the place we promised ourselves we would come back to see and here we are and there it isn’t … bummer.

As close as we ever got!

With our main event of the day defunct, we are back on the road and now aiming for Riding Mountain National Park. A nice drive across the prairie and here we are. What is there to say about Riding Mountain? Wasagaming is the town within the park that likely teems with people in the summer. It is not so busy now, but we can’t imagine staying in one of the cabins that sit cheek by jowl. There is lots of hiking to do here though, and even golfing. This park seems to be a little like Cypress Hills, an oasis of forest in the middle of the prairie. A most refreshing change in the landscape.

The East gate entrance at Riding Mountain

Cabins cheek by jowl

Visitor Centre