PREECEVILLE — Lady Lake Regional Park is a great place to bring the family to kick back and enjoy your summer. There is a sand beach with a dock, as well as a floating dock with a diving board, a short swim out. The lake is stocked with trout, but no gas motors are allowed on the lake. Bring along your canoe and make a lap of the lake while you glide by the loons and geese that call the lake home.
Part of the revitalizing process has campers joining together to host summer markets.
“The proceeds from those summer markets are being used to help improve the park for generations to come,” said Natasha Aichele, organizer. “We have had four large trucks bring in some much-needed sand to the shore and to the beach volleyball site. It has been great, and we are looking into the possibilities of expanding a walking trail around the lake and new playground equipment. The markets showcase what the park has to offer, and we are hopeful that more campers and visitors come out and explore the great park,” she said.
Lady Lake Regional Park was once part of the Gogal family’s original homestead, according to the Regional Parks of Saskatchewan website. Orvin Gogal donated the original 20 acres occupied by the park. Originally run by a local community board until 1967, the park became incorporated as a regional park under the provincial government.
In the 1980s, the Lady Lake Park Development Association acquired and leased another 20 acres to enlarge the park. The spring-fed, one-mile-long and half-mile-wide lake has a small peninsula and islands tucked in its waters. Lady Lake Regional Park even has its own legend, which stems from a story of an Indigenous maiden who drowned herself rather than marry a man she did not love, chosen by her chieftain father.
