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Top Ten Canadian Camping Destinations!

Are you looking for the best camping destination in Canada? The best way to know Canada is through its national parks. Look at the below ten national parks and know about each region whether it is suitable for your needs or not.

1. Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario

This region contains more than 1000 lakes and a panoramic 3000 square miles of wilderness. Also, this spot is great for activities like backpacking, bicycling and canoeing. Here you will find up to 250 bird species.

2. Banff National Park, Alberta

It is one of the Canada’s top tourist destinations. Once you enter into this park, you will be enclosed by glaciers, mountain lakes, mountains, and rushing rivers. Within Banff, you will find Tunnel Mountain campgrounds and this park have special regions for tents and RVs.

The basin and cave is a naturally occurring hot mineral spring inside a limestone cave. Deer, moose and elk can examine your campsite. Ensure that you protect your cooler from curious bears.

If the park is filled with heavy crowd, for few hours move on to the Columbia Icefields Parkway to Jasper National Park. You will be travelling on one of the most scenic drives in the world as it wends its way through mountain glaciers and passes.

3. Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia

You can observe this park from your car when you are at Cabot Trail Highway. This park is full of green mountains and unbelievable costal beauty with all those jewels as a boardwalk trail, which is a home to rare orchids.

You will take great memories when you visit this park, such as moose-filled wetland marshes, whale watching and the view at the 100 foot high Beulach Ban Falls.

4. Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland

This is a “Big Gloomy” from the French and you will find these glacial valleys well-named on a foggy day. The mountains, blue fjords and unending vistas of spruce trees are the living spaces for eagles, caribou and moose.

Also, you will find several million years’ older mountains in this park like pre-Cambrian mountains. These are very much older than Rockies and also have various oldest ranges in the world.

5. Kouchibouguac National Park, New Brunswick

From the Mi’kmaqu word for the “River of Long Tides”, this area becomes a favorite place for cyclists and beach-goers. This park has huge varieties of land types, like salt marshes, sand dunes, peat bogs, and lagoons.

Once you visit this park, you can learn a lot from this. Don’t forget to visit the Voyager Marine Adventure. This is a three hour canoe paddle offshore to sandbanks where you can see hundreds of grey seals basking in the sun.

6. Pacific Rim National Park, British Columbia

This park contains ten miles long beach. Great waves, surfing opportunities and pools packed with aquatic life are present. This beach is also a home to a multitude of various bird species.

You can have unique camping experience from this park as it provides rainforest tours, Beach walking, whale watching, and sport fishing.

7. Parc National Forillon, Quebec

At the extreme end of the Appalachian Mountains, the lush forests, plentiful wildlife, and rugged coastline attract many visitors from all over North America. Here, you can find great camping activities like – nature walks, cycling, sea kayaking and hiking trails.

Also, you will observe many beaches. Seals and seabirds can be displayed at the coast from the Cap des Rosier harbor and you may have a glance of a whale.

8. Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan

This national park is located in between the great Canadian prairie grasslands and the evergreen northern forests. Within few hours of travel, you can reach the destination.

Gentle terrain and boreal forests in combination offer a recreational area for backpacking, canoeing and swimming. You can have great memories with wildlife sights, like bison, badgers, black bear, caribou, elk, moose, wolves, and white pelicans.

9. Prince Edward Island National Park, Prince Edward Island

This park has a twenty-five mile beach and it is famous for its red cliffs, pink and white sand beaches and grass-topped sand dunes.

The Homestead Trail covers meadows and woodlands, the Reeds and Rushes Trail leads to the nesting grounds of local species of geese and ducks in a freshwater marsh pond.

10. Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba

This park has a bird sanctuary and you will also find coyote, bison herd and lynx within the park. Forests, 40 hiking trails and lakes keep you busy for every moment. You can also have an opportunity to go for a camp in a traditional teepee at the village of Anishinabe.

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