Travers Dam Recreation Area
This is a rustic campground within wide open spaces. Its isolation is its drawing attraction. If you want to star gaze, to fish in the reservoir, or do day trips to the nearby Little Bow Provincial campground, then this is your spot. The recreation area has little development: a sign, pit toilets, a boat ramp, and a camp kitchen. Dividing the camp ground, with its 12 camping sites, from the water front is a caragana hedge and a few small shrubs. A cluster of trees to the west of the camp kitchen along a tiny piece of beach gives shade to a couple of picnic tables, and a homemade rope swing from one of the larger trees brings back childhood memories.
This site is not at the dam site itself but can be reached following a gravel road going north from the dam, or by dipping a bit south off of secondary highway 529. Travers Reservoir itself is a great fishing spot, with many mini-fjords that give structure where large pike and walleye thrive. Whitefish, perch, and the other species can be caught where a canal from Lake McGregor drops into the upper part of the reservoir.
