Little Bow Provincial Park on Travers Reservoir, AB

The Little Bow PP beach is located on Travers Reservoir approximately 20km South of the Town of Vulcan. The beach is great for kids as it is a horseshoe shape surrounded by trees and picnic tables. As this is a reservoir beach the water levels and swimming area can vary widely throughout the year. As a result some visitors take to their boats at the nearby boat launch for water activities on the reservoir. Kids will like the abundance of sand and the playground nearby. There is a campground with 205 sites. This campground offers campsites for both tents and larger RV's group camping picnic shelters public phone snack bar showers water fire wood picnic tables sani dump boat launch boat rentals fish cleaning station horseshoe pits and play grounds. Little Bow Campground is very popular and is often fully booked in the summer. Travers Reservoir was created from the nearby damming of the Bow River and offers good Pike and Walleye fishing. Throughout the Little Bow campground you'll see very large Balsam Poplar tress and may even see some 'Great Horned Owls'. Night skies here are good for star gazing it ranks # 3 on the Bortle Scale. (Campground information courtesy of AlbertaWoW).NOTE: An AHS Blue-green algae advisory was issued for Travers Reservoir from August 15-October 2013