John T. Cheeseman Park

John T. Chesseman Park is a provincial park near Port aux Basques. It has about 100 campsites and picnic area. It opens on the May 24 weekend and closes on the Labor Day weekend in September.

In the park there is a freshwater spring where you can get drinking water.

There are also two streams that have waterfalls where you can swim. But one is not safe because of big rocks and a violent current. The park is by a sandy beach that runs about two kilometres up th Atlantic ocean which is a nesting place for the endangered piping plover. Leading out to the beach there is a fitness trail where you can do activities along the way.

By the park office there is a small playground that has swings, a sandbox and teeter totters. Around this playground there is a small field where you can play ball.

The park has special sites and outhouses for people that use wheelchairs.

There is also a whalebone display that has a vertabrae, skull and rib bones.

On the staff there are park interpretation officers. These officers show nature films, has campfires, singalongs and nature hikes.