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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / RVs / June 2007RV campgrounds/resorts in Brit. Columbia
hey all... Time to hook up the 5th wheel and head out on our first RV trip to BC, specifically the Banff, Lake Louise area. Anyone had some good campground/resort experiences in the Radium Springs or Fairmont Hot Springs area? According to Trailer Life and Woodalls, some nice campground/golfing resorts are in the area. thanks...Ken > hey all... Time to hook up the 5th wheel and head out on our first RV trip to BC, specifically the Banff, Lake Louise area. Anyone had some good campground/resort experiences in the Radium Springs or Fairmont Hot Springs area? According to Trailer Life and Woodalls, some nice campground/golfing resorts are in the area. > thanks...Ken Just to set the record straight, the last time I looked at a map, Banff and Lake Louise were still in Alberta, & I haven't heard they have moved to BC. You may know something different. Maybe the premier of Alberta has redrawn the line between British Columbia & Alberta??? We stayed here www.radiumvalleyvacationresort.com many years ago & were happy witht the decision. We have not been in this area for some time now so can't update you on this. It is affiliated with the Coast to Coast Resorts network so if a member fees would be $8.00 per night. Burt Thank you for that piece of geographical trivia. I should have worded my query with a little more care. However, if I have perused my atlas correctly, my principal area of interest for lodging in the Radium Hot Springs and/or Fairmont Hot Springs seems to lie within the BC boundries. The Radium Valley Resort you mentioned seems to just rent RVs as well as other types of conventional resort lodging. Thanks for mentioning it, however. I could be wrong, but didn't Coast to Coast Resorts go belly up a few years ago because of mismanagement and poor public relations? >>hey all... > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Burt >> I could be wrong, but didn't Coast to Coast Resorts go belly up a few > years ago because of mismanagement and poor public relations? > > Snipped for brevity....... Coast to Coast is very much alive. We use it extensively on our trip south in the fall & on the trip home in the spring. We are going across to the eastern seaboard this summer & will be using some of the resorts along the way. Travelling Canada & US back and forth across the borders. Especially the ones that fall within our route across. Burt >Time to hook up the 5th wheel and head out on our first RV trip to BC, >specifically the Banff, Lake Louise area. > >Anyone had some good campground/resort experiences in the Radium Springs >or Fairmont Hot Springs area? According to Trailer Life and Woodalls, >some nice campground/golfing resorts are in the area. We generally avoid Banff & Lake Louise like the plague so I can't be a whole lot of help. When we do stay at Banff we either stay outside the park at Canmore (just barely outside the park gates to the east) or at Castle Mountain which is about 30 miles west of Banff townsite. Castle Mtn is unserviced and generally has openings even in the height of the tourist frenzy. We now spend most of our BC time in the Shuswap Valley (Sicamous & area) but we have spent a lot of quality time in the Kootenay Valley as well. We stayed in Radium National Park once - can't remember anything bad about that - saw plenty of bighorn sheep there. If you want some recommendations further west - ie in the Shuswaps - then I'd be happy to help.  SignatureR.J.(Bob) Evans (return address needs alteration to work) Thanks Bob. I have given some consideration to Canmore, but it just adds more miles to the already long drive from California. Like you, I try to avoid the heavily traveled tourist areas. I like the idea of places like Fairmont Hot Springs that also offer golfing, biking, etc. even if means paying a higher price. My last extended trip to BC was in 1986 when the World's Fair was going on. thanks...Ken >>Time to hook up the 5th wheel and head out on our first RV trip to BC, >>specifically the Banff, Lake Louise area. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > If you want some recommendations further west - ie in the Shuswaps - > then I'd be happy to help. >Thanks Bob. I have given some consideration to Canmore, but it just adds >more miles to the already long drive from California. Like you, I try >to avoid the heavily traveled tourist areas. I like the idea of places >like Fairmont Hot Springs that also offer golfing, biking, etc. even if >means paying a higher price. And you should know that I am generally prejudiced against our national parks because - beautiful, grandiose and scenic though they may be - they are governed by our federal gummit who delegates the authority to operate the parks to a band of thugs which my wife and I refer to as the park nazis. If you insist on staying in Banff Park then I would still recommend that you consider Castle Mountain. You are going to go right by it on the way from Radium to Banff anyway - it won't add any distance to take a look at it. You can stay at Castle Mtn and drive into Banff if you really want to visit Tokyo on the Bow River. SignatureR.J.(Bob) Evans (return address needs alteration to work) > >Thanks Bob. I have given some consideration to Canmore, but it just adds > >more miles to the already long drive from California. Like you, I try [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Castle Mtn and drive into Banff if you really want to visit Tokyo on > the Bow River. To expand on what R.J. has written I just don't like being gouged to stay at a National Park campground. Not only do you have to pay for the right to stay at the camp(which I can justify) but when staying there you also have to pay for a park pass. If you want to have a fire, pay for that. Next thing you know they will be charging to use a the unserviced washrooms and they do charge for using the dump station. A reasonable amount is okay but $7.90 is excessive I say. So for a family to stay at Castle Mountain Campsite would cost in the neighbourhood of $54.40 to camp, stay in the park one night, build a fire & dump their rig. Knowing the gov't they probably charge GST on all of that. Just a bit excessive in my books. Here is the website to Banff National Park http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/banff/visit/tarifs-fees_e.asp?park=1 . Burt |
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