Birds Hill Provincial Park

Bird's Hill Provincial Park has been our home base for our Winnipeg trip the last few days. It's a pretty big park, with pleasant aspen parklands scenery. Our campsite is a bit primitive, which is okay with us. The only issue has been the squirrels. They are very brave and have been constantly trying to steal our food. They are mostly Richardson's Ground Squirrels.

There is a nice swimming area that Sierra really enjoyed,
though it wasn't the warmest day for swimming when we visited yesterday.

While the park has mostly been a place for us to eat

and sleep,

we did go for one hike while in the park.

It was a hike to the site of an old community called Pine Ridge. There's not much left of Pine Ridge today; just a homestead cabin,

some rusting farm equipment

and a barn.

We walked

from the homestead site to a lookout tower

and then retraced our steps back to the car. Along the way we saw a few wildflowers in bloom.

Besides the squirrels, the only wildlife we saw were a few frogs.