Banff
Going to Banff after Glacier Nat. Park. Is there any dry camping around the park. Called the park and they were less than helpful.
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Flashman wrote:profdant139 wrote:
Flashman, if you mean boondocking, there is none. But there are campgrounds without hookups along the Bow River, not far from Banff. Just be sure that you know where the train tracks run -- many campgrounds in the Canadian Rockies are RIGHT NEXT TO THE TRACKS, if you know what I mean.
Wow - as big and empty as Canada is - there is no boon docking??
I guess that is why we (USA) are known as the land of the free!
There is a lot of BLM land in the western part of the states or so the boondockers have mentioned a lot on RV.Net. But if I were to go to the gates of Yellowstone( 8983Km2) and ask for Boondocking in the park, they would laugh me out of the place.
Banff, Jasper NP have around double the area of Yellowstone and for sure, their policy is dry camping in CG but no dispersed vehicle camping. Backpacking is a different animal.
But out of the parks, their are lots of opportunities for dispersed camping.
Take BC for example which is close to Banff and Jasper NP.
Total area of 948,000 Km2 or 100 times the size of Yellowstone.
94% of that land is Crown= public? There are roughly 400,000 kms of resource roads.
This is only one of the 10 provinces.
Drive up one of them, stay awhile and no one will bother you.
And our bears are very well behaved.
Dave
