Gignac Family Adventures: Silver Lake Provincial Park

Packed up and ready to go, we hit the road early, hoping to get on our site early. Fortunately for us, noone had booked on Thurs night, so we were able to start setting up at 1130.

Silver Lake Provincial Park is right off of hwy 7, about 14km east of Sharbot Lake Provincial Park, and approx a half hr from Perth.

It is a small park, but has lots of amenities within it.

With 147 sites, navigating around the park is a tad bit hellish. Signage isn't the best at this park and it was a bit of a struggle to find the site, and a REAL challenge to turn around with the trailer in tow. However we managed thanks to Pete's good turning skills. We booked back in January - our hope this summer was to try to get water sites to make it easy access with the kayaks. We were successful in securing site 40. Site 40 is rated for an 18 ft trailer and is non-electric. It was once again a stuggle to get the trailer on the site as we had to back down a long lane way but thought we could make it work with our 21 ft trailer!!! Thankfully Pete was a pro- "backer- upper" and he did it!!!! While checking in the girl working said 40 was the best site at the park and she was right!! (we had looked around last year when we were the only ones in the park to search out the best site). Site 40 had a great view, although a bit of hwy noise could be heard, the location made up for it. A great small sandy area allowed easy access for the kayaks and would be an ideal site for small children to play in the water right onsite.

A 3 or 4 min walk to the comfort station, large beach area,, boat launch, playground, garbage, recycling, and another small beach area and day use area. The nice thing about a small park is you need not have to drive anywhere once arriving.

Large trailers can be accommodated here, but not on the water. Most of the sites along the water are for 18ft and under or tents only. The beach area was quite busy over this weekend, as we had superb weather. It was well cleaned by park staff, as was the large playground area, which was right in the centre of the park. This park, in my opinion is great for families with small children as there is lots to keep them busy and the beach isn't super large.

There is a small hiking trail with a boardwalk (.5km). We did not do it as I am recovering from surgery. Fishing was the priority for Pete this weekend. Friday he searched the lake (9km long) for lake trout but was unsuccessful. Saturday marked the opening of bass season, so off he went and was not disappointed. Overall he caught a tonne of bass & pike in two days fishing. For those needing canoes or kayaks they offer a lot for rent, and it was nice seeing a lot of them being utilized over the weekend.

We never saw park staff patrolling - the roads aren't really made for this at this park as they don't flow in many loops like most parks do, and we were at a dead end. Noise wasn't an issue around our site, even though a lot of the sites were booked. Most people seemed to be there for the camping experience vs a loud, party all night experience!

Would we return - yes, but likely not for a while - too many other great parks to go to but in a few years, yes - we will likely return!

Some photos around the park, our site and the lake

Fishing - day one