You’ll discover the proper slice of wilderness only a half hour from Edmonton’s shiny lights at Elk Island National Park. Whether you’re new to tenting or just need to keep away from the effort of shopping for and establishing your individual gear, Elk Island National Park provides you the luxurious of calling one in all their Tipis, Cabins, or oTENTiks dwelling. You even have the choice of parking your R.V. in one of many three tenting websites across the park. Besides the potential for seeing a bison, and the limitless alternatives for out of doors journey that Elk Island offers (ahem, Sandy Beach and Astotin Lake), the most effective elements of the park is that it falls inside the Beaver Hills Dark Sky Preserve. This means optimum circumstances for searching for out glowing star clusters, nebulae and galaxies, and even catching a glimpse of the brilliant, pulsating refrain of lights we all know as aurora borealis.