Facilities
Activities
Please note: Availability of some facilities and activities may be restricted to specific areas of the park, may be ecologically dependent, or may be seasonally weather dependent.
General Information
Regional Health Unit for this Park: Northwestern Health Unit
Phone:
(807) 223-7535
Size: 3400.00 ha
Year established: 1985
Park Classification: Nature Reserve
Address:
PO Box 2, 479 Government Street
Dryden, ON
P8N 2Y7

What You'll Like:
In many lakes, especially those near ice-sheets, formations called varves—banded layers of silt and sand—are deposited annually. Course and pale material is left in summer, while finer, darker material is left in winter. One light band and one dark band make up a varve. Just as tree rings may be counted to reveal the age of a tree, varved layers of clay may be counted to determine the age of a glacial deposit. Butler Lake Nature Reserve features an eight-metre section of varved clays deposited by the postglacial Lake Agassiz. Park Facilities and Activities There are no visitor facilities. Access is via Wabigoon Lake.
Location: Ten kilometres southeast of Dryden.