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Brief Information About Sylvan Lake

By Merv Carlson


Sylvan Lake is famous for its green parks, beautiful lakes. The town is located in Central Alberta, around 25 km west of Red Deer city. There's a long freshwater lake named Sylvan Lake. Tourists who visit Sylvan Lake are attracted by the fun activities on the lake.

What Tourists Can Do In Sylvan Lake

Sylvan Lake is the perfect destination to come for family at any time of the year. There are exciting summer activities; there's lots of winter fun. Tourists coming to Sylvan Lake in summer will enjoy various relaxing activities such as sailing, jet skiing, water sports, golfing. The influx of summer visitors saw an increase of businesses opening that were not seasonally dependant, nor were they tourist dependant.

Weather In Sylvan Lake

It is said that the weather in Sylvan Lake is quite temperate. It is a little bit cold in winter, cool in spring and comparatively comfortable in summer. Its annual rainfall is 398.3 millimetres or 15.68 inches at average. Its total snowfall quantity is 158.2 centimetres yearly. The average winter temperature is approximately 14.6 degrees. The average summer temperature is 15.7 degrees.

Its population of 13,327 people is quite young with 33.2% of the population 19 years of age or under and 6.7% of the retired people. Now it is qualified for city status in the province of Alberta.

Information Gathering

If you want to keep on top of things, Sylvan Lake can be the place for you. It has one local newspaper. It is called Sylvan Lake News. You can also receive newspapers from nearby Red Deer. Having no broadcast television stations by itself but it get broadcast news from Edmonton at all three of the big channels. Although it doesn't have any radio stations but it gets signals from Red Deer, which pleases listeners.

Real Estate and Taxes

Homes in Sylvan Lake are typically affordable when compared to many areas of Canada. House prices range from $99,000 to over $1 million dollars for large plots of land with spacious houses. The town has street maintenance, water and sewers, waste management and gas and electricity services.

The community centre, Aquatic Centre, Multi-Plex, Multi-Campus and many trails parks and sports fields can satisfy those needing to rent facilities. Besides, the town has many indoor and outdoor entertainment places and 2 provincial parks.




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