A stay at the Canyon Alpine RV Park in the Fraser Canyon
As I mentioned in my last post, I chose to use the Canyon Alpine RV Park & Campground as my base for exploring that part of the Fraser Canyon. It worked out particularly well, and telling you about it justifies a separate post.
I arrived at Canyon Alpine, 5 km north of Boston Bar, just before noon on May 4th, and pulled away at 11:00 on the 5th, so spent a total of 23 hours there. Well, the motorhome was there – I was often out exploring.
I chose this park to stay at (my first commercial park stay of the trip) because I’d seen comments about having new owners who were doing a lot of work on the property. I don’t know what the park looked like previously, but new owner Shirley and Tim have clearly already done a great deal of work.
The nightly rate is $40 for full hookups (electrical/water/sewer) – with Skihist Provincial Park having been $23 with nothing but a great view, I considered this to be good value. The sites vary somewhat in size, but the lowest-level one I took (#2) was very large, and very easy to get in and out of with my 51-foot-long combination.
The 31 sites in the park are terraced up an increasingly-steep slope, but the sites themselves are very level, and new gravel has just been laid on each.
In the centre is a fenced ring with garbage and recycling cans.
The fenced dog park is a nice touch. Bella and Tucker appreciate the soft grass even if it was too warm for poor Bella to play, with her winter husky coat still intact.
The bathroom was quite exceptional – all new and spotless. The men’s has 2 showers, 2 toilets, and a urinal.
Outside the bathrooms, a washing machine and dryer is available for “light laundry”.
The view back down to the office and the mountains on the opposite side of the Fraser River.
There’s a comfortable conversation area with a stove outside the office. As I was leaving, Tim was just in the process of building a putting green beside this area.
Behind the park proper, a very steep old road leads up the mountain for about 2/3 of a kilometer, offering a good workout for dog owners, and great forest smells for the fur-kids. The road dead-ends at what may have been an old woodlot cutting area.
Wifi is one of the things that I bitch about regularly at RV parks – service is usually dismal. At Canyon Alpine, however, it was solid and fast, and free for up to 500MB of data (more can be purchased). Thumbs up to their provider, Lookieloo.net!
I got tired of my own cooking and had my first nice meal out while I was at Canyon Alpine, at the Canyon Alpine restaurant 2 doors over. That brought my total costs beyond fuel for the 10 days up to almost $150. 🙂
There’s another RV park a few miles down the highway, Anderson Creek. I haven’t looked at it, and it gets great reviews, but I was very happy with Canyon Alpine and will be back next year for at least 2 nights.
Okay, back to exploring!
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