To help people enjoy Ontario's great outdoors, most provincial parks in southern Ontario will open for the 2001 season on May 11, and many northern parks will move into full operation starting May 18, Natural Resources Minister John Snobelen has announced. Many of our adult visitors spent their youth vacationing in our parks. Now they're bringing their children, and even their grandchildren, to experience the wide open spaces and excellent amenities offered throughout Ontario's provincial parks system. There are still plenty of sites available for the 2001 camping season.
Admission is free that day at all provincial parks.
Individual parks will be holding special events like guided hikes and children's activities to celebrate their unique natural and cultural features. Ontario Parks reminds campers that a ban on the consumption of alcoholic beverages is again in effect in selected provincial parks from May 11 to 22 this year. Last year attendance topped 8.8 million at Ontario provincial parks.