You’ll discover the right 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 wish to keep away from the trouble of shopping for and organising your individual gear, Elk Island National Park affords you the luxurious of calling one among their Tipis, Cabins, or oTENTiks residence. 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 infinite alternatives for out of doors journey that Elk Island offers (ahem, Sandy Beach and Astotin Lake), among the finest elements of the park is that it falls inside the Beaver Hills Dark Sky Preserve. This means optimum circumstances for looking 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.