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Visitor Centre on the move
Thursday, July 14th, 2005 by GetawayBC.com
If you are travelling to Granisle this summer, don’t expect to find the Visitor Information Centre in its same location. It is being moved to the Mammoth Lodge.
By May 15, all of the pamphlets, desks, and telephone lines should be transferred out of the barnstyle building on Highway 118 in Granisle to the Mammoth Lodge.
Mark Aussem, general manager of Mammoth Lodge, said that the move was a joint decision by the District of Granisle and Mammoth Lodge.
“The main reason it is being moved is to provide better hours of service,” Aussem explained.
“The village doesn’t have a lot of money, and when the Visitor Info Centre was operating long hours, it would be an expense on the budget. By us taking it here, we are saving the village money because we are not charging anything for it to be here and we can offer more hours.”
The Visitor Information Centre will be operating independently out of the old gift shop in the hotel.
Gerald Ewald, mayor of Granisle, said that they have been trying to get grants from Tourism BC for the past few years, but they haven’t had the number of visitors needed to get grants.
“We told them, ‘We’re moving it. If you don’t like it, too bad,’ and now the grants start coming in,” he said.
Edie Hargrove has been the Visitor Info Centre manager for the past 6 years and is looking forward to the relocation.
“I think it will be a good move,” she said. “We have quite a few people that come in during the summer, and people who come back every year.”
So the next time you are in Granisle, you can fi nd all the information you need at the Visitor Information Centre in Mammoth Lodge.;