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Separated from the Whiteshell by the Winnipeg River, Nopiming Provincial Park is a remote rocky area whose granite shoreline cliffs spread out above black-spruce bogs and tiny sandy beaches - the name is Ojibwa for "entrance to the wilderness". The park's four campsites (all open May-Sept; tel 1-888/482-2267 or 948-3333 in Winnipeg for camping reservations; tel 1-800/214-6497 for park information; $7-10) lie close to its two gravel roads: Route 314, which meanders across the 80km of its western edge, and the far shorter Route 315, a thirty-kilometre track that cuts east below Bird Lake to the Ontario border. Nopiming Park is crossed by the Oiseau and Manigotagan waterways, whose creeks and rivers trickle or rush from lake to lake, forming no less than 1200km of possible canoe route. Towards the south of the park, BIRD LAKE makes for a useful base, with a main settlement on the south shore that's equipped with a campsite ($7), a grocery store and the cabins of the Nopiming Lodge (tel 884-2281, fax 884-2402; $60-80/$80-100; year-round). There's also motorboat rental, as well as canoe and guide rental for excursions to Snowshoe Lake, around falls and over rapids (55km). Near BISSETT , in the north of the park, there are several abandoned gold-mining shafts from the 1930s.
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