Image | park staff and visitors

Caption: Parks Canada staff say the campground will be open next year. They asked visitors for suggestions about how best to rehabilitate the site. (Brian Higgins/CBC)

Image | mike oulton

Caption: 'Unbelievable,' says visitor Mike Oulton. 'I've camped here before, I'll camp here again, but to see trees just snapped off like match sticks, it's heart-breaking.' (Brian Higgins/CBC)

Image | damage

Caption: Crews from across Canada helped clear the fallen trees. (Brian Higgins/CBC)

Image | visitors

Caption: More than 100 people toured the site. (Brian Higgins/CBC)

Image | building

Caption: Parks staff say buildings at the park are still intact and services including water, sewer and electricity were not damaged during the storm. (Brian Higgins/CBC)

Image | spruce logs

Caption: Cut logs fill the parking lot at the campground entrance. Staff say the spruce forest lacked diversity, making it vulnerable to severe weather and they plan to plant thousands of trees of multiple species to re-establish the Acadian forest in the park. (Brian Higgins/CBC)

Image | Tara McNally MacPhee

Caption: 'It's their story now,' says Tara McNally MacPhee, visitor experience manager at P.E.I. National Park. Staff wanted the public to see for themselves just how much damage the park sustained during the storm. (Brian Higgins/CBC)