Mark your calendars and prepare for camping early! Here are the Parks Canada Campground Reservation Dates for Alberta for 2023! Camping season may feel far away, but when it comes to planning and making reservations, you’re going to want to get started. Beginning March 23, 2023, campsite reservations for Alberta will be available for the entire season on the Parks Canada website. The popular campsites are almost impossible to get into if you are thinking about planning a last minute summer trip, so it is important to start planning early. Important things to NOTE for 2023: Parks Cana ..read more

Plan your next camping trip with this FREE Printable Camping Planner. Includes checklists for packing, groceries, menus, activities, budgets and more! Just download, print and get planning! Make travel planning easier with checklists! All the things that need done before camping trips can feel overwhelming…the grocery lists, what to pack, what to wear and what to do…there’s so much to plan! But you can help manage all the planning stress by writing it down! Today we’re sharing 16 pages in our FREE ‘This Big Adventure Camping Planner’. Just download the sheets you want to use, print them out an ..read more

We’re sharing a comprehensive Camping Food List to help take the stress out of meal planning for your next camping trip!  Breakfast, snacks, lunch and dinner, it’s all here. Over the years we have found a food packing system that works really well for us on our camping trips.  Now we can get packed for our trips pretty quickly.  We have found that if we come prepared with basic ingredients, our meal planning is way less stressful. Simple and Practical! It’s not a complicated system at all.  In fact, it’s all about packing staples, then adding fresh goods.  An ..read more

Nope, it’s not in Drumheller folks. Dinosaur Provincial Park is a UNESCO world heritage site, just over two hours southwest of Calgary. With interpretive tours, camping amidst the hoodoos and amenities like showers, it’s one of our top places to camp with kids in Alberta. One of the most common misconceptions about Dinosaur Provincial Park is that it’s located by Drumheller.  It’s not, in fact it is about 1 h 41 minutes (163.3 km) away.  But don’t let that deter you in the least!  Dinosaur Provincial Park is AMAZING, and definitely one of our most favourite campgrounds. You’ll ..read more

Kinbrook Island Provincial Park is a lakeside campground located 13 km south of Brooks, Alberta off hwy 873, about 2 hours southeast of Calgary. Amenities include a campground, beach, boating, walking trails and more. Camping At Kinbrook Island Provincial Park There are 199 sites available for camping, which include sites for RVs and tents. There are 14 unserviced sites, 185 serviced sites (power) and 32 sites available for winter camping. The campsites are flat, range from well shaded to wide open, some back on to other campsites and some back on to marshland. Note: no campsites are located o ..read more

Here are 10 Easy Food Prep Tips for Camping! Simple and practical tips you can do at home to make your camping experience less stressful. Getting ready for camping doesn’t need to be stressful! With some simple at-home prep, your next trip can be easier than ever. Here are some simple food prep tips, recipe ideas and more! Use a Checklist One of the things we find most useful when getting ready to go out camping, is to use a food checklist to make sure we have all of the essentials. We’ve put together a comprehensive list which covers breakfast, lunch and dinner…it’s a great guideline, and you ..read more

A bright and airy camper makeover that cost less than $400! Come take a tour and get tips and tricks to inspire your own trailer makeover! Last summer we purchased a new-to-us pop up camper for our growing family. With 5 of us, including a teenager that is almost 6 feet tall, plus a dog, our camper was just too small to hold us comfortably.  So we set out in search of a camper that had beds for us all, better storage, a functional dining area, and room to move. We’ve been talking for a couple of years about what we wanted to do once we outgrew our trailer, and we decided to buy a pop up c ..read more

Camp in the prairies, foothills or mountains, the Calgary area has it all!  Here are 7 Campgrounds Close to Calgary, and all within 2 1/2 hours drive. Updated June 2020.  Make sure to check with the campground for changes to services. We love to camp.  And we especially love to camp close to home…that’s because we have some of the best camping in the world around Calgary.  There’s nothing like camping in the fresh air of the Rocky Mountains, or in the beautiful and serene prairies…we really have it all right here, close to home.  And the quick drive helps too…which mea ..read more

Rain in the forecast for your camping trip? Don’t worry, here are 15+ Camping Food Ideas for rainy camping trips! Ideas for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We’ve all been there…the campsite is booked, the trailer or tent is prepped and ready to go, but the forecast is for rain. Rain is not fun for camping, but often it’s not enough of a deterrent not to go, or a campsite booking is not refundable, so what are you supposed to do? GO! Don’t let rain ruin an opportunity for fun. I think one of the biggest obstacles when it comes to rain when camping, is not being able to have a campfire to cook foo ..read more

We’re sharing our comprehensive Camping Supplies Checklist to help take the stress out of packing for your next camping trip!  All the essentials and more! Over the years we have done a lot of camping…camping in tents, trailers, cabins, you name it, we’ve camped in it. And over this time we’ve learned a lot about what we must have and what we don’t need when we’re packing for camping. Print it and take it with you! And when I’m getting ready for our camping trips, I always need a checklist for packing.  I just find it so much easier to plan when I have a list I can refer to.  An ..read more