We receintly took our class B for a road trip from Vancouver, Lillooet and Whistler to Vancouver.  I was thinking about spending the last night at Alice Lake Provencial Park, South of Whistler.  We normaly Boondock and this was our first "camping" kind of weekend.  It's been years since I camped in a Provencial Park so it was quite a surprise to find that a non-hook up site was $30.00 (hook up $38.00).  I'm not knocking any fee's because it cost money to maintain the parks.  What I discovered is the camp ground section of the park is run by "Camp Operators" or contractors and it's a business. There was also meters (parking meters) in the day picnic areas at Alice Lake.  We travel mostly in the USA but, I wanted to stay at home in Canada for this weekend. It was an eye opener.

Our last trip was to Grayland Beach State Park in Washington http://www.stateparks.com/gray…..beach.html where a hook up site was less, on the beach.  My comment is that camping in government parks is getting expensive as compaired to Hotel 8 fees of about $38.00 (if you time it right).  It must be expensive for young families to go camping in government parks.

Brad and Littelleftie, could'nt agree more. I am trying to contact as many RV owners (all types of RVs) in BC to submit decent real boondocking sites (under $15 to free) in every community in this province. I am finding it more and more frustrating at paid camp sites. So this web site is a great centre for collecting all this info. I think every Rver can think up 3-4 reasonable overnight freebies in their hometowns, I can think of 4 in my town alone.