Originally Posted by
VomitSpeed
Most Parks Canada employees are not aware of the Whistlers Campground hiker-biker area. It is kind of a confidential secret amongst cycletourists, backpackers and the Parks Canada employees at the Whistlers Campground. The numbered sites in the hiker-biker area (hidden in the woods) are not even shown on the campground map:
https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/ab/jas...s/whistlers-cg
The absence of non-reservable hiker-biker campsites on the rest of the Icefields Parkway is a real failure on the part of the Government of Canada,....Sometimes you can meet other cyclists along the way to share a camping site.... on the Icefields Parkway. If I have a site I always invite the other cycletourists to share it. I have met lots of interesting people that way.
Doing it one day does kind of ruin the sightseeing
I actually spoke with the Jasper Rangers (not the national call center) and they mentioned that even the walk-in sites typically fill by 11am (may have been 1pm, I forget) in August. I specifically asked about H/B sites and that is when they mentioned the walk-in, which are mostly filled by tenters in cars. I do think H/B sites in the the larger campgrounds would be a positive thing. Even if I could do the ride in one day, I probably would not unless I had ridden it before many times and then I would do it only to see it in a different light, no pun intended.