Originally Posted by
Machka
There's two of us travelling together ... and we like having the space, if we can get it. We don't want to be squished in right next to someone else. This is one of the reasons why we will even pay extra to get a larger powered site.
Anyway, if you have a look through Banff National Park's list of designated campgrounds, you'll see that several of them say this:
"There are designated loops with food lockers for walk-in campers."
Those are usually "hiker/biker" sites.
And the fees aren't bad, ranging from $15.70 to $27.40.
Parks Canada - Banff National Park - Camping
It's definitely reasonable, and on par with Washington, where you had to pay $12US per site, as I don't believe they had hiker/biker sites. I got lucky with sharing with other bikers, and we weren't turned away at a full site, and given a small site to use. I'll definitely look into the term "walk-in camper" and see where they are. At the very least, it would be nice to be able to search which parks have these types of sites. I haven't had any luck being able to search this. And with the 150 anniversary, it would be nice if Canadian Parks embraced bike touring. Certainly very good for the environment (minus the jet fuel of flying to the province of choice, eheheh).