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StirCrazy
Dec 20, 2021Moderator
choices are going to be very limited with that size of unit in BC. I have a 42 foot and it takes a bit of planing to find places to stay. If you have never been to banf or havent been laitly don't waist youre time trying to stay at lake louise . Stay at the tunnel mountian campground in banff (Village 2, or the trailer park. I always stay in village 2) then now have the ROAM buss service that takes you into town for free and is a couple bucks to get back to the campground. they have taken a lot of parking away in town so it makes things simple. there are also busses that run to canmore , and lake louis. I recomend taking the bus to Lake Louise and make a day trip of it. the parking there fills up early every morning and realy once you have spent the day there canoeing or what ever, you have done lake louise.
from there towards the coast is going to be the tricky part. Kamloops is about a 5.5 to 6 hour drive from banff, so your going to have to stop before then if you stay to your 250 mile limitand except for big resorts on the shewshap lakes thrre isn't a lot of good places for a unit that big. Between revelstoke and sicamose is crazy creek hot springs. in the mountians but has a railway line on one side and the highway on the other, but not bad we stayed there a few times and got a good sleep. oh I just remembered there is a new campground just out of revelstoke in the national park called snowforest.
from revelstoke or crazy creek its only a 5 to 5.5 hour drive to get to vancouver, but like was mentioned our main route to van was trashed. its just opening today to limited comercial trafic but the other three routs are twisty windy roads. so you can add two hours to your drive if you cant use the coq by summer. I am not familer with any large enough campgrounds between kamloops and cancouver as its only a 3 hour drive to get to vancouver for me. but in vancouver you realy have to decide what you want, I always stay out in fort Langly at Brae Island. fort langly is a neat old vilage with neat stores and such you can walk to from the campground , but it is easy to hop in the truck and drive anywhere else in the lower mainland/vancouver you want to see. I have also stayed in Tynehead RV Camp in Surrey, but very tight/narrow sites.
Steve
from there towards the coast is going to be the tricky part. Kamloops is about a 5.5 to 6 hour drive from banff, so your going to have to stop before then if you stay to your 250 mile limitand except for big resorts on the shewshap lakes thrre isn't a lot of good places for a unit that big. Between revelstoke and sicamose is crazy creek hot springs. in the mountians but has a railway line on one side and the highway on the other, but not bad we stayed there a few times and got a good sleep. oh I just remembered there is a new campground just out of revelstoke in the national park called snowforest.
from revelstoke or crazy creek its only a 5 to 5.5 hour drive to get to vancouver, but like was mentioned our main route to van was trashed. its just opening today to limited comercial trafic but the other three routs are twisty windy roads. so you can add two hours to your drive if you cant use the coq by summer. I am not familer with any large enough campgrounds between kamloops and cancouver as its only a 3 hour drive to get to vancouver for me. but in vancouver you realy have to decide what you want, I always stay out in fort Langly at Brae Island. fort langly is a neat old vilage with neat stores and such you can walk to from the campground , but it is easy to hop in the truck and drive anywhere else in the lower mainland/vancouver you want to see. I have also stayed in Tynehead RV Camp in Surrey, but very tight/narrow sites.
Steve
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