B.C. government creating more than 1,900 new campsites

Good for you B.C.

The worst thing you can do to truly protect the wilderness is to make it into a park.

Maybe they're making more parks for all the Americans leaving the country? :B

Goodbye.

gbopp wrote:
Maybe they're making more parks for all the Americans leaving the country? :B

Goodbye.

That would be a pretty small park. Haven't heard of even one that's followed through on that promise...........darn it.

:):)

12k per site. Sounds about right.

Loved camping in BC in 2010......may be headed back this year.

Excellent news. We are in the okanagan and sites can be difficult to find .

If this relieves the congestion in the other campgrounds, then it's an excellent thing. What they aren't saying is that it just might replace all the campgrounds/sites they took away 15 years ago! They aren't clear on weather they are going to reopen them, or create new ones. Those sites should never of been lost in the first place. As an example,
Loon Lake

On Vancouver Island the problem is that it is so busy in July and August. The rest of the year the campgrounds are mostly empty. Adding more spaces seems crazy for most of the year.

Who are all those people jamming up the parks in the summer? How many are BC taxpayers? Why is it a BC taxpayer's job to provide camping spaces for tourists?

In fact why should every taxpayer in BC pay for just the few of us who ever actually go camping? Shouldn't that be "user pay?" Or is it user pay already? Do the camping fees cover the cost?

I somehow doubt my $13 a day fee is paying for Rathtrevor being open in February when I am the only camper in the whole park sometimes.

Most of the people in the park most of the year are local joggers and dog-walkers-- hardly any campers.

I don't have a good answer to it all, but I can see why the government doesn't pay any more than they have to on camping spots.

when I lived on the Island the only time it was hard to find a spot with out a reservation was a long weekend but we could still find them. now that I live in the interior I find there sites are pathetic compared to the provincial sites on the island. most places are hard to get a 30 foot trailer into up here. for the interior it would be nice if they modernize the size of the sites as well as adding more.

Steve

My pet peeve is that the sites are large enough for the trailer, but the loop roads are so narrow that when you are backing in and you swing the front of the truck around to line up the trailer, the front wheels of the truck can fall into the ditch on the other side of the road. I think they made them for motor homes that can just drive right in. Oh well.

A couple years ago on the Island the park "rangers" had a survey going about maybe putting electricity in. That would have added to the cost! It didn't happen (so far)

I wish they would have sites out in the open so you can use your solar, but they put them all in the thick woods.

Anyway, I do like camping in the provincial parks, and am suitably grateful to the other taxpayers for helping out with that. :)