B.C. Parks fee increase
BC Parks just recently increased their fees. While i suppose it's something that was overdue (it's been 5 years), i find it funny that they claim they have to do this due to an increase in users!! A d...
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Sheesh, how right you are = not enough folks = need to increase fees for budget to maintain. Too many people = need to increase fees to maintain. Double edged sword.
I can remember a few years back we thought the prices of BC PP campgrounds were high compared to Alberta, and that's when they were more controlled by the Gov versus the private concessionaires here. Lately we've found the prices here in AB are getting crazy and we aren't supporting CG's here much any more preferring to go over the border to much cheaper and just as attractive locations, many free but spending our vacation dollars in local businesses, that's indirectly causing the loss to our own country, which is sad really.
I just looked at our 16 year camping log book and in the first five years of camping we averaged 21 days a year camping in PP's & SP's. The next five years saw it drop to 12, and the past 6 years average of 3 days per year, none the past two. Yet our overall average number of days RVing have gone up from 33 days first five years, 48 days next five years to several trips to the USA the past 6 years of 6 and 3 to 4 week trips, averaging 67 days a year for the past 6.
McClean Creek, Kananaski's country basically just a gravel parking space with a spigot here and there scattered far apart you can only fill jugs with not for tank filling, and a dump station at the entrance, we paid $33 per night to park. It's supposedly the land of the people yet there is strictly enforced zero random camping even if we were 1km away from an established campground, but it comes under PULZ (Public Use Lands)
We often comment how Canada was all about promoting the great outdoors, affordable family camping and wilderness camping and about the land belonging to the people and so on. In the twenty years we've lived here in southern Alberta, and Ontario before here it's sure not feeling that way to us any more today.
Oh well, signs of the times I guess, and we all pay our money and the governments make our choices.
I can remember a few years back we thought the prices of BC PP campgrounds were high compared to Alberta, and that's when they were more controlled by the Gov versus the private concessionaires here. Lately we've found the prices here in AB are getting crazy and we aren't supporting CG's here much any more preferring to go over the border to much cheaper and just as attractive locations, many free but spending our vacation dollars in local businesses, that's indirectly causing the loss to our own country, which is sad really.
I just looked at our 16 year camping log book and in the first five years of camping we averaged 21 days a year camping in PP's & SP's. The next five years saw it drop to 12, and the past 6 years average of 3 days per year, none the past two. Yet our overall average number of days RVing have gone up from 33 days first five years, 48 days next five years to several trips to the USA the past 6 years of 6 and 3 to 4 week trips, averaging 67 days a year for the past 6.
McClean Creek, Kananaski's country basically just a gravel parking space with a spigot here and there scattered far apart you can only fill jugs with not for tank filling, and a dump station at the entrance, we paid $33 per night to park. It's supposedly the land of the people yet there is strictly enforced zero random camping even if we were 1km away from an established campground, but it comes under PULZ (Public Use Lands)
We often comment how Canada was all about promoting the great outdoors, affordable family camping and wilderness camping and about the land belonging to the people and so on. In the twenty years we've lived here in southern Alberta, and Ontario before here it's sure not feeling that way to us any more today.
Oh well, signs of the times I guess, and we all pay our money and the governments make our choices.
