Part wildlife conservation preserve, part ophidiophobic nightmare, Canada's Narcisse Snake Dens see tens of thousands of garter snakes arrive each year to sleep and mate in huge slithering piles ...

The Narcisse Snake Dens last month.Credit...Aaron Vincent Elkaim for The New York Times Supported by By Ian Austen NARCISSE, Manitoba — Tokyo has its cherry blossoms, the Netherlands has its ...

The Narcisse Snake Dens are located six kilometers north of Narcisse, Manitoba. They are the winter home of tens of thousands of Red-sided Garter Snakes. The pits are the largest concentration of ...

NARCISSE SNAKE DENS, Manitoba — The snakes — dozens, perhaps even hundreds — resembled a giant undulating blob of spaghetti as they twisted and rolled in their apparent attempt to scale the ...

It’s a first for Hiebert on this wet May day at the Narcisse snake dens in Manitoba’s Interlake region, about 100 kilometres north of Winnipeg. Tourists and school buses full of students have ...

Conservation Manitoba, a government agency, boasts that at Narcisse Snake Dens “you can see more snakes at a glance than anywhere else in the world.” Each spring, tens of thousands of non ...

Each spring, a remarkable natural event unfolds in Manitoba’s Interlake region ... tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes at the Narcisse Snake Dens.This phenomenon represents the largest ...

but the Narcisse Snake Dens, about an hour's drive up the road from Oak Hammock Marsh in Manitoba's Interlake Region, is a springtime spectacle the likes of which has to be seen to be believed.

From every crack in the limestone bedrock, snakes slither by ... Dave Roberts, the Manitoba Conservation wildlife technician in charge of the Narcisse dens, explained how males will swarm a ...

From every crack in the limestone bedrock, snakes slither by ... Dave Roberts, the Manitoba Conservation wildlife technician in charge of the Narcisse dens, explained how males will swarm a ...

according to Manitoba Conservation. Snake numbers at the Narcisse snake dens have been low mainly because of cooler weather. Now, the remaining snakes will begin to disperse to their summer range ...