If hitting up the beach in Sylvan Lake is among your planned summer day trips or vacation destinations, make sure you plan ahead and are ready to start paying for parking again as of tomorrow.

The pay parking program returns for a second year for those prime lakefront stalls, it’s in effect until September 15th between the hours of 10 am and 9 pm.

         (photo courtesy Google Street View)

For residents and property owners, Communications Officer Joanne Gaudet does have one friendly reminder to ensure you continue to park for free this season.

“Regardless of whether individuals and property owners registered last year as a resident or property owner, we do need them to log in again this year and update their 2018 vehicle license plate information.  Once they do that this year for 2018 they should be good until about 2023, unless their license information changes”.

Property owners also now qualify for free parking, with allowances to register up to 4 vehicles.

She notes they’ve also taken steps to make it easier for visitors to shell out the cash for parking along the busy lakeshore.

“We have a number of new pay parking kiosks or stations that we have put throughout the waterfront and that’s to reduce line-ups at certain stations and allow access, so a lot of our payees were having a hard time finding the stations, so we have more of those”.

Visitor pay parking rates are $2 an hour, $10 a day or you can now purchase an annual parking pass according to Gaudet.

“We do offer a seasonal permit for $126.50 and so if we have visitors that are regular visitors to the waterfront, then they can register and purchase the seasonal permit and then they don’t have to worry about paying on an as-come kind of service there”.

For complete information on the program, including pay station locations and free visitor parking locations click here.

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