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Twenty provincial parks will see full or partial closures in 2020, in a move estimated to save $5 million as part of the Alberta government’s 2020 budget, unveiled last week.

Alberta Parks announced the list of closures online, which will leave some sites entirely off limits to the public this year and others with specific campgrounds or facilities closed.

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Shortened operating seasons will be in effect for some provincial campgrounds, meaning later opening dates and earlier closures than usual.

Environment Minister Jason Nixon says the province can no longer afford the “retail” side of parks.

“We can’t continue to spend $86 million of Albertans’ tax dollars and only see $36 million come in,” he said Tuesday.

Nixon was unable to say how much money the move would save. Documents released by his department late Monday put the figure at $5 million in the 2020 budget year.

Beginning this fall, Alberta Parks staff will also no longer groom cross-country ski trail tracks in three areas of the Kananaskis Region. Those include Peter Lougheed Trail, Mount Shark Trail and the Kananaskis Village area.