Located on the eastern bank of Lake Winnipeg in southern Manitoba, Grand Beach Provincial Park offers visitors a day of enjoyment on golden sands. A prime feature of the Grand Beach Provincial Park is its sand dunes, some of which are 12 meters (39.37 feet) high. The long stretch of sand beach is regarded as one of the best beaches in North America. Enjoy a day of swimming, boating, fishing, hiking, cycling and birdwatching here, or just a relaxing walk along the shore of Lake Winnipeg.
The Wapusk National Park is home to one of the world's largest known Polar Bear maternity denning areas, aptly deriving its name from the Cree word for "white bear". The park comprises a significant portion of the subarctic ecosystem between the southernly boreal forests and the Arctic tundra of the north. The scenery transitions from the stunted trees of the subarctic forest into peat bogs, wetlands and sedge meadows that give way to the barren tundra. In winter, the entire landscape is transformed into a featureless sea of white - stark yet beautiful in its own formidable way. Besides Polar Bears, the park preserves the habitat of a variety of native fauna including a host of waterfowl and shorebirds, moose, wolves, and caribou. Remote and wild, the Wapusk National Park is nonetheless the most accessible of the northern swathes of wilderness and one of the few places where such a diversity of rare wildlife can be observed in a natural setting.