valhalla360 wrote:
StirCrazy wrote:
valhalla360 wrote:
SideHillSoup wrote:
Your routing and ideas are all over the map.
1, first there is no “boondocking in any Canadian National Park period. There is over flow camping and places that you can “camp / park “ over night in the NP’s however they are regulated areas that you can stay at, you just can’t park anyplace you like for the night.
2 that Casino your talking about is about 30 miles from the Banff Park entrance, it is east if Deadman’s Flats, which is east on Canmore…
3. Cranbrook is 3.5 hours south southwest of Banff, there are a lot of places that you can dump your tanks without driving to Cranbrook. As well there are a lot and I mean a lot of campgrounds and our places to camp between Banff and Cranbrook, however because you can’t camp anywhere in a Canadian National Park unless it is a campground ot a permitted area, you won’t find any places to camp legally until south if Radium Hot Springs .
4 you have a campsite at Lake Louise… did anyone tell you that the campsite is only a few hundred yards for the CPR mainline tracks? The trains run past that campground 24/7/365..that means train running near your campsite all night long.
I do hope you have a wonderful time in thebCanadisn Rockies, they are fabulous
Soup.
One of the things we found great about the Canadian NP campgrounds were they were cheap.
We were paying $35CAD/n (~$25USD) for a site with electric.
Last fall we were in Yellowstone and Grand Teton. $83USD/n full hook up in Yellowstone and $50USD/n dry camping at Grand Teton.
don't forget you have to add your park fees to that which are 10 bucks/adult per day so if its two of you that 35 buck site just became 55 bucks. if there are 3 then get the family pass for 20 bucks a day
You need to pay the park entrance fee...camping or not, so not really part of the camping cost.
The OPs dates suggest at least a week in the national parks. With the full itinerary, the OP should check against the cost of the annual pass. We found it cheaper than buying day passes.
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not really an entrance fee but rather a stopping fee. for instance, I don't have to pay it when I go back to Alberta to see my family as I just drive through and not stopping while I am in the park. but even if you stop for gas you are supposed to have pai for one. I buy an annual pass every year as I am up there camping a lot, where I live is 4 hours from Jasper and 5 hours from Banff, so the family pass saves me a lot of money. Usually we do a lait September / October trip to Banff for a night or two, then some place like Mosquito creek for 4 days then up to jasper for a couple of nights then home I don't mind the cooler weather, just crank up the campfire a bit more... as long as the wind isn't ignorant ;)
