Long Lake is a provincial park controlled by the Department of Lands and Forestry of the Government of Nova Scotia (formerly called the Department of Natural Resources). However, the park has never had a fully approved management plan and so is relatively unknown as a public space, despite its proximity to central Halifax and its large size (rivalling that of the Halifax peninsula). In 2003, the Department of Natural Resources entered into consultation with the Long Lake Provincial Park Association on the development of a management plan. In early 2015 the Long Lake Provincial Park Association started to build