Photo: Shane Clausing

By Shaun Penner

Trail Signage

New signage providing easier navigation in Muskoseepi Park

Jul 30, 2020 | 5:30 AM

Users of the Muskoseepi Park trail system will notice some new signage to guide them around, as the City of Grande Prairie’s parks department has been installing the new directional signs over the past couple of months.

Transportation and Parks Manager Robert Carroll says the need to provide better guidance for users of the park was long needed.

“The existing signage that was in place there was inadequate and very old. So, we took it on as an internal project to update that signage.”

Carroll says they have been working on putting up the signage over the last couple of months, starting at the Ernie Radbourne Pavilion working outwards.

He says the need for better signage to help users navigate the park is long overdue.

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“I moved here to Grande Prairie almost 14 years ago, and I remember it being my first time in Muskoseepi Park, thinking to myself ‘Oh my god, how do I get around here? And what are the destinations? How long does it take to get to these places?’,” recalled Carroll.

“There’s been various iterations of this signing project that’s been bouncing around for the last few years… since I took over as Parks Manager a little over a year ago, it came under me finally, so I said “let’s get something done’.”

He says what has been put up now is phase one of a multi-stage process in erected signage like it along the trail system. That first stage has signage that directs users north and south around the Bear Creek reservoir as well as provides distances around the loop. The new signs also direct users to major landmarks within the park, like the pavilion and the South Bear Creek diamonds.

Caroll adds that he and his team would like this to become part of a “way-finding project” for all of the City’s trail system over the next couple of years.

“I mean, we’ve got an extensive amount of trails in this city, upwards of over 100 kilometres of them, and there’s not really a whole lot that guides you,” said Carroll. “There’s, really, nothing in place that will easily give you directions on how to get [to where you’re going]. So, having some signage in place is certainly a key point of that.”

Carroll says the next steps are to install some kilometre markers along the Muskoseepi trail. They also plan to install new signage in Maskwôtêh Park later this summer or early this fall.