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Manitoba Area Tourist Attractions

You will find the central location of Walkinshaw Place ideal for visiting the area tourist attractions in and around Boissevain and the Turtle Mountains of Southwestern Manitoba. Discover the splendor of the Turtle Mountains and the quiet solitude of the prairie land and marshes.

Manitoba Golf in the Turtle Mountain Area of Southwest Manitoba
Experience the challenging and beautiful golf courses o
f South-western Manitoba. Walkinshaw Place offers two-day golf packages that include one of the top 10 golf courses in Manitoba, the 18-hole championship course at Killarney Lakeside Golf Club, and the challenging 9-hole courses at the Boissevain Golf Club and the Deloraine Golf Club. Please phone to reserve your relaxing golf vacation.

Manitoba golf at Killarney Lakeside Golf Club

Manitoba Geocaching in the Boissevain and Turtle Mountain Area
Experience the challenge of searching for easy and difficult hidden geocaches in this area of Manitoba. Visit www.geocaching.com and search using Boissevain's postal code R0K 0E0 to find geocaches hidden in the Boissevain area. Walkinshaw Place offers two-day geocaching packages that include the use of a hand-held GPS unit as well as private geocaches available only to registered guests of Walkinshaw Place. Please phone 1-888-739-2579 to reserve your geocaching vacation. 

The Turtle Mountain Provincial Park
Walkinshaw Place is located adjacent to the Turtle Mountain Provincial Park, an all four seasons playground. The Winter Park includes a skating pond, tobogganing hill and outdoor hockey arena with warming huts scattered throughout the park. There are several kilometers of excellent double-tracked groomed cross-country ski trails. The groomed snowmobile trails wind throughout the Provincial Park. Seasonal facilities are offered for hiking, mountain biking, trail riding, swimming, water skiing, picnics and fishing. Opportunities for bird watching, wildlife and wildflower viewing are abundant. Geocaching is also becoming a popular activity in the Turtle Mountains. Visit www.geocaching.com to discover the geocaches hidden in the Turtle Mountains.

    


     

The International Peace Garden                                        
Walkinshaw Place is ideally located as the closest accommodation to the International Peace Garden. Only five minutes away, the International Peace Garden stands as one of the greatest symbols of peace in the world today. Visit the World Trade Center memorial that commemorates the events of September 11, 2001 and pays tribute to the peaceful relationship between Canada and the United States. Ablaze with colour in summer the International Peace Garden is home to the International Music Camp in June and July and features musical concerts most weekends. Spend an afternoon wandering through the colourful gardens, landscapes and wilderness areas of this Manitoba Star Attraction.

                    

The Town of Boissevain
Spend a leisurely day visiting the Town of Boissevain which houses a Manitoba Star Attraction, the large Outdoor Art Gallery of over 20 historic murals. An International Communities in Bloom Winner, this friendly prairie town welcomes visitors year-round. The Moncur Gallery of pre-European artifacts, the Beckoning Hills Museum, an Arts Park, the Chokecherry Junction model railway exhibit, and unique gift and antique shops are some of it's many amenities. A visit to The Station brings back the nostalgia of yesteryear as you browse through all the "Shabby Chic" furniture displays. Just 5 minutes outside of Boissevain are the beautiful and thought-provoking Anchorage Gardens, open to the public only on select dates in July and August. Geocaching is also becoming a favourite activity in the Boissevain area.  Special events in the Boissevain area are hosted each summer; this year plan to attend the RCMP Musical Ride on August 9, 2008.

              

The Whitewater Lake Waterfowl Habitat
Designated an Important Bird Area of Canada, Whitewater Lake is becoming known worldwide as a birding hotspot in southwestern Manitoba. Shorebirds are plentiful and Whitewater Lake provides a natural viewing area for waterfowl and prairie wildlife. Rare bird sightings occur such as the appearance of a Curlew Sandpiper in 2001. Whitewater Lake is a quiet, peaceful marsh area for all birdwatchers as they tour this area to view the Southwestern Manitoba prairie species.

   
             

Newcomb's Hollow
To walk down the Boundary Commission Trail is to experience a piece of history. The original wagon tracks are still visible today at Newcomb's Hollow where the first pioneers to the Turtle Mountain area registered to obtain their homesteads. In 1880 Mr. John Renton Jr. arrived as one of those early settlers and homesteaded 1/4 mile from Newcomb's Hollow. In 1907 Mr. John Renton built the Victorian farmhouse that today is known as Walkinshaw Place. Revisit history at Newcomb's Hollow.

    
   

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