I rarely make reservations. I have a truck camper and I know how to park when cgs have their emergency space taken up. & I travel with dogs.
New Brunswick and PEI are better for such boondocking than Nova Scotia, but it can be done there too. The more a place is set up for the big rigs the harder it is to get into.
BTW in '95 when I tested out the Cabot Trail, I found that private cgs outside of the park were more spacious than the park cgs. Those cgs had divided single sites into 2 sites. It just confirmed my opinion of that park that it ain't what it's talked up to be. Meat Cove and the cg near Fortress Louisbourg are better layed out. Whycogamagh is also. I had to have a reservation on Grand Manan Is. the year I went, but a friend camped on Grand Manan's west coast boondocking in a campervan the year they went.
Just go do. & tell us what kinds of things you like to do and we can pass on things we like.
:B
