IMMERSE YOURSELF
Anyone can visit the park to view the wolves. Price is $12 for adults and children under 12 are $8. To enter the enclosure and interact with the grey wolves costs $50 per person with a minimum of two people. You must be 14 years or older. Wolf experiences are available year-round.
A circular pathway leads visitors from an interpretive centre on the enclosures and accommodations. Visitors will first come upon the grey wolves as they venture down the pathway, though it may be a while before they reveal themselves. The Arctic wolves, less shy than their grey counterparts, make the likelihood of seeing wolves during an initial walkaround high.
Spending the night in Parc Mahikan allows visitors to be fully immersed in the experience. The park offers a variety of accommodations, each ideally placed across from wolf enclosures.
Separated only by a chain-link fence, visitors gain intimate insight into pack behaviour by day and night.
Forest dwellings including yurts, prospector tents and cabins, come fully equipped. Warmed by wood stoves, camping on-site is easily done in the fall, and a heated chalet is available for winter.
About 20 people can spend the night in the eco-lodges, and booking is best done several weeks in advance, especially in the summer season. Access to the park and breakfast is included for all accommodations.
L’Atipik, an A-frame wooden cottage, sleeps one to two people and is $170 per night, taxes included.
Both the L’Affut (house on stilts) and Mongolian yurt sleep three to four people and cost $240 per night.
The prospector tent is budgetfriendly at $80 per night and sleeps two.
Visitors also have to access to hiking, canoeing and, in winter, dogsledding. Jennifer Smith Nelson