Narrow Hills Provincial Park is provincial park in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

 Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It contains a series of recreational facilities and a variety of lakes within its boundaries. These include the Gem Lakes, Lower Fishing Lake, Upper Fishing Lake and others.

The park was established in 1934 as Nipawin Provincial Park, but was renamed Narrow Hills in the 1990s.http://www.gov.sk.ca/Default.aspx?DN=99c3c562-1b20-4cc1-9174-4310be1ea7b9

The town of Smeaton

Smeaton, Saskatchewan

Smeaton, Saskatchewan is the village at the start of the Hanson Lake Road, which ends at Creighton Smeaton, Saskatchewan is the village at the start of the Hanson Lake Road, which ends at Creighton Smeaton, Saskatchewan is the village at the start of the Hanson Lake Road, which ends at Creighton...

 is located 70 km south.

Recreation

Narrow Hills offers a variety of recreational facilities and opportunities. These include sport fishing, hiking

Hiking

Hiking is an outdoor activity which consists of walking in natural environments, often in mountainous or other scenic terrain. People often hike on hiking trails. It is such a popular activity that there are numerous hiking organizations worldwide. The health benefits of different types of hiking...

, and camping

Camping

Camping is an outdoor recreational activity. The participants leave urban areas, their home region, or civilization and enjoy nature while spending one or several nights outdoors, usually at a campsite. Camping may involve the use of a tent, caravan, motorhome, cabin, a primitive structure, or no...

. The park contains 25 bodies of water suitable for fishing and another 30 within an hour's drive. In addition to the native walleye

Walleye

Walleye is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the northern United States. It is a North American close relative of the European pikeperch...

, yellow perch

Yellow perch

The yellow perch is a species of perch found in the United States and Canada, where it is often referred to by the shortform perch. Yellow perch look similar to the European perch, but are paler and more yellowish, with less red in the fins. They have six to eight dark, vertical bars on their sides...

 and northern pike

Northern Pike

The northern pike , is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox...

, the park contains stocked trout

Trout

Trout is the name for a number of species of freshwater and saltwater fish belonging to the Salmoninae subfamily of the family Salmonidae. Salmon belong to the same family as trout. Most salmon species spend almost all their lives in salt water...

 species including brown

Brown trout

The brown trout and the sea trout are fish of the same species....

, lake

Lake trout

Lake trout is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, lake char , touladi, togue, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, they can also be variously known as siscowet, paperbellies and leans...

, brook

Brook trout

The brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, is a species of fish in the salmon family of order Salmoniformes. In many parts of its range, it is known as the speckled trout or squaretail. A potamodromous population in Lake Superior are known as coaster trout or, simply, as coasters...

, cutthroat

Cutthroat trout

The cutthroat trout is a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family of order Salmoniformes. It is one of the many fish species colloquially known as trout...

, rainbow

Rainbow trout

The rainbow trout is a species of salmonid native to tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. The steelhead is a sea run rainbow trout usually returning to freshwater to spawn after 2 to 3 years at sea. In other words, rainbow trout and steelhead trout are the same species....

, and tiger

Tiger trout

The tiger trout is a sterile, intergeneric hybrid of the brown trout and the brook trout . The name derives from the pronounced vermiculations, evoking the stripes of a tiger. It is a rare phenomenon in the wild, with the brook trout having 84 chromosomes and the brown trout 80...

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External links

• Saskatchewan Parks website for Narrow Hills
• http://www.publications.gov.sk.ca/details.cfm?p=11115 Fish Species of Saskatchewan
• Narrow Hills Provincial Park