Parks Canada considers visitor restrictions for Lake Louise area
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Visitors to Lake Louise and Moraine Lake could be limited, as Parks Canada tries to manage record tourist numbers in Banff National Park.
Restrictions could be implemented on visitors to Lake Louise and Moraine Lake, as Parks Canada tries to manage record tourist numbers in Banff National Park.
Parks Canada announced Thursday it’s developing a visitor-use management plan for the Lake Louise area, with the rising number of tourists impacting the visitor experience, safety and ecological integrity.
Visitor numbers to Banff National Park rose 31 per cent over the last decade, with the 2023-24 tourist season the busiest on record.
The first part of the Parks Canada plan is to get feedback from Canadians on what they want for the Lake Louise area.
“What are our capacities? What are our pressures? What is a quality visitor experience up there? So that’s why we want to hear from residents, Canadians, to really engage in this survey so that we’re hearing them and managing accordingly,” said Parks Canada’s Dwight Bourdin.
“We haven’t made any decisions. We’re in an information-gathering stage right now… (to) determine what is the desired conditions Canadians want for the Lake Louise and Moraine Lake area,” he said.
Parks Canada already receives visitor feedback to Banff National Park, which helped shape the survey.
“Leading up to this process through visitor emails, meetings with stakeholders… just a general frustration around not be able to access their intended destinations is a very frequent concern and frustration that we hear,” said Parks Canada’s Zoe Arnold.
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