Ah, the venerable campground host. Walmart greeters of the RV world. Rewarded with a free campsite in a conspicuous location in exchange for unpaid labour including the selling of overpriced firewood, ensuring drunken strangers obey rules, and cleaning public toilets. What’s not to love? Not much, it would seem. So popular is this barter that […]
Two Jack Lakeside Campground – Banff National Park – review
Remember 1999? Amidst the anticipation of the coming new millennium and the growing Y2K panic, George Lucas gave millions of now-grown-up Star Wars fans the first of three prequels to his legendary space opera. The hype was unsurprisingly intense and the reviews, perhaps equally unsurprising, were mixed. I landed firmly in the disappointed camp and […]
Two Jack Main Campground – Banff National Park – review
So, this is … umm … well, this is embarrassing. Prior this past summer, I … uhh … I’d never been to Lake Minnewanka. Truth be told, I’d never heard of Lake Minnewanka. Seriously. I had no clue. None. And if I ever did hear of it, that knowledge certainly never took up any semblance […]
Marble Canyon Campground – Kootenay National Park – review
Here’s an interesting tidbit. Kootenay National Park was a bribe. It’s true. A century ago, a deal was in place for the federal government to build a road from Banff to the Alberta/BC border at Vermilion Pass. The BC provincial government would build a road from Windermere to the pass thereby opening up the region […]
Fort Steele Campground – review
Nothing piques my interest in a campground more than a terrible review. In particular, I love a bad review bemoaning the strictness of management. I say this in dead seriousness and with full recognition of my hypocrisy relative to my younger days, but if you’re pissed off that a campground won’t let you have “fun” […]
Woolford Provincial Park – review
As my catalogue of campground reviews has grown, I’ve started to question my rating system. Oh, sure, the baby dill pickle shtick is cute and all, but it’s hardly rigorous. My judgments rely more on my whims at the moment of writing than anything scientifically valid. The appeal of a campground can change, sometimes dramatically, […]