Asessippi Provincial Park is a provincial park

Provincial park

A provincial park is a park under the management of a provincial or territorial government in Canada.While provincial parks are not the same as national parks, their workings are very similar...

 located in Manitoba

Manitoba

Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

, 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...

 about 100 km west of Dauphin

Dauphin, Manitoba

Dauphin is a small city in Manitoba, Canada, with a population of 7,906 as of 2006. The nearby lake was given the name "Dauphin" by the explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye in 1741 in honour of the heir to the French throne...

. The Park is 23.2 km² (9 sq mi). The focal point is the Lake of the Prairies also known as Shellmouth Reservoir

Shellmouth Reservoir

The Shellmouth Reservoir is a man-made reservoir on the Assiniboine River in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Canada.The Shellmouth Dam an embankment dam was built by the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration . Construction started in 1964 and was completed in 1972 costing $10.8 million. The dam is ...

. The lake has one of the largest walleye fisheries in Manitoba. The Park includes a large campground with over 100 mostly serviced sites.
Asessippi Ski Resort is a place where families can enjoy a fun time while skiing/snowboarding, tubing, among others. Many schools book annual ski trips at the resort during the winter months.

Asessippi consists of many runs. For inexperienced participants lessons can be taken on either snowboard or skis. Jack Rabbit it the mildest of all the runs. It is also referred to as the "bunny hill". Goat trail and Asessippi Alley are runs that are a more difficult. There are three chair lifts used to access the runs. the real most difficult runs are rollarcoaster porqipine and action alley

External links

• Government of Manitoba. Asessippi Provincial Park

• Asessippi Ski Area & Resort. Asessippi Resort

• Tourism Information. Asessippi Parkland Tourism