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Old 03-21-2018, 02:36 PM
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Default Best Campground in Jasper

Planning on taking my little family to Jasper for some camping in June, hoping to get some opinions on which campground you guys can suggest?

Thanks in advance,
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Old 03-21-2018, 02:38 PM
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Wapiti CG is just outside of town. Good facilities, clean, quiet.
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Old 03-21-2018, 02:41 PM
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Are the sites decently private, and allowed fires?
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Old 03-21-2018, 02:52 PM
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Go a little bit further just on the BC side to Mt Robson Prov park. Beautiful park and really nice campsites.
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Old 03-21-2018, 08:00 PM
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Honeymoon lake 42 Km south hiway 93. Or snaring river just befor jasper town on hiway 16
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Old 03-21-2018, 08:07 PM
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Wapiti CG is just outside of town. Good facilities, clean, quiet.
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Are the sites decently private, and allowed fires?
Yes. You must pay for a daily fire permit..........but the wood is free
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Old 03-21-2018, 09:15 PM
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Yes. You must pay for a daily fire permit..........but the wood is free

Really? I didn’t know that. We have always stayed at Whistlers and most sites we have stayed at don’t allow them. May try Wapiti next time.
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Yes. You must pay for a daily fire permit..........but the wood is free
I believe banff is the same way.
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Old 03-22-2018, 10:42 AM
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If you are lucky to get a site on Athabasca River in Wapati or along the creek you will think you died and went to heaven.
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I stayed at the campground just outside of the park coming from Hinton this past October, was quiet and decent. Not for a big trailer though.
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Old 03-22-2018, 12:26 PM
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I stayed at the campground just outside of the park coming from Hinton this past October, was quiet and decent. Not for a big trailer though.
Could that of been the Pocahontas one?
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Old 03-22-2018, 12:26 PM
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If you are lucky to get a site on Athabasca River in Wapati or along the creek you will think you died and went to heaven.
Maybe I will try and do this. Thank you.
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Old 03-22-2018, 01:10 PM
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Honeymoon lake 42 Km south hiway 93. Or snaring river just befor jasper town on hiway 16
X2 for honeymoon lake. Quiet, somewhat private if you get a good site.

Plus you can fish off the little water access the site has and dip your toes in kind of thing.
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Old 03-22-2018, 02:16 PM
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Wapiti.

Take a flyrod and weighted hellgrammite flies and dabble along the shoreline rocks. As a kid I caught many a rocky mountain white along there.
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Old 03-22-2018, 07:01 PM
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Absolutely Wapiti. We stayed there last summer for 4 nights and loved it, going back again this year too. The campsites are great, a little tight for bigger trailers but if your a good driver manageable. The elk that bed down at night and graze in the daytime are really a great treat. We woke up the first morning and there were 3 cows bedded down not 10 feet from the picknick table, and not in a hurry to leave either. Go there, you will love it.
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Old 03-23-2018, 01:51 PM
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X2 for honeymoon lake. Quiet, somewhat private if you get a good site.

Plus you can fish off the little water access the site has and dip your toes in kind of thing.
We like Honeymoon Lake camp ground during the week not to many there, maybe to far out for some, nice and quiet for us.
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