Canoeing/Kayaking

Golden Riverfront Campground

25 RV Sites, 37 Tent Sites

Golden Riverfront Campground in Nicholson, British Columbia, offers 25 RV sites with water and electric on 30-amp service and 37 tent sites along the Columbia River, with rigs accepted to 60 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Cabins, a beach, and a pond sit at the edge of the Canadian Rockies, 20 kilometers south of Golden. Twenty-five sites carry water and electric on 30-amp in back-in and pull-through configurations, sized to 60 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables — note there are no sewer hookups at the sites, though a dump station is available. Thirty-seven tent sites make this a genuinely tent-friendly property, unusual among RV parks. Cabins serve guests without a rig. Laundry, restrooms, showers, firewood, and WiFi handle the practical side. Reservations can be made online, by email, or by phone, with full payment required at booking; online is preferred. The river setting carries the recreation. A beach and pond support swimming with inflatable water toys, and fishing, canoeing, and kayaking run from the property. Walking trails, a playground, pavilion, dog park, sports courts, and volleyball fill the grounds, with hiking and biking from camp and strong birding in the wetland and forest. The campground also operates as a wedding venue. Pets are welcome. Nicholson sits in the Columbia Valley, which serves as basecamp for the densest cluster of national parks in Canada — Yoho, Kootenay, Glacier, and Mount Revelstoke are all within about two hours via the Trans-Canada Highway, with Rogers Pass and the Kicking Horse Canyon close by. The campground runs the mountain park season. Summer is peak — reserve well ahead.

from $26/night

Sheridan Lake Resort

15 RV Sites, 11 Cabins

British Columbia's Highway 24 runs through the South Cariboo's Interlakes District carrying the unofficial title of the Fishing Highway — an earned designation that reflects what this stretch of interior BC is known for above all else. Sheridan Lake sits along this corridor in the hills of Lone Butte, and the resort bearing its name has spent decades building a reputation as one of the most complete destination fishing operations in the BC Interior. With 84 RV sites, 19 lakeside cabins, and a 36-slip marina, Sheridan Lake Resort is built from the ground up for anglers, yet the surrounding South Cariboo landscape offers enough beyond the lake to make a non-fishing companion's week equally worthwhile. The 8-acre property is organized around fishing access in a way that keeps gear, water, and accommodation in close proximity at all times. The full-service marina handles boat rentals and supplies, a fish-cleaning station processes the day's catch, and the 36 boat slips accommodate guests arriving with their own watercraft alongside those relying on the rental fleet. Lakeside cabin accommodations range from cozy one-room retreats to larger configurations suited to fishing groups, and the RV sites serve travelers arriving self-contained. Pets are welcome throughout the property, and the South Cariboo's legendary hospitality gives even a first-time guest the sense of stepping into an established tradition. Sheridan Lake's rainbow trout population is what draws anglers from across North America, and the numbers behind the fishery are extraordinary. The lake receives an annual stocking of 300,000 fish, and the combination of depth, cold temperature, and quality food supply produces trout that average roughly three pounds at maturity, with fish exceeding ten pounds landed every season. Weed beds, rocky shoals, and a series of islands create habitat complexity that makes both fly fishing and conventional trolling consistently productive from May through October. The peak surface-feeding windows of June and early July, when evening hatches bring fish up in visible numbers, are the weeks most devoted fly fishers plan their trips around. The surrounding South Cariboo landscape opens up 208 kilometers of mapped trail suitable for ATV riding, mountain biking, and hiking in the warmer months, and the same network converts to groomed snowmobile and cross-country skiing terrain through winter. Several authentic guest ranches within 30 minutes of the resort offer horseback riding and working-ranch experiences for guests extending their Cariboo trip beyond the lake, and the region's cowboy heritage — reflected in local rodeos, trail rides, and the particular character of small South Cariboo towns — provides a cultural counterpoint to the fishing focus. Restaurants, grocery, and golf are accessible within a half-hour drive, making supply runs fully practical throughout the season. Sheridan Lake Resort operates May through October, with the fishing season's peak productivity running through June and July for surface-feeding opportunities and September for pre-freeze feeding activity. The resort sits approximately eight hours from Seattle and five and a half hours from Vancouver, making it a genuine destination trip for Pacific Northwest anglers rather than a casual day outing — distances that the quality of the fishery consistently justifies. Cabin and site bookings for peak June and July weekends fill well in advance; reserving early is particularly important for fishing groups requiring multiple adjacent sites or cabins with good lake access.

from $31/night

Black Beach Resort

On the southwestern shore of Curlew Lake in Republic, Washington—in Ferry County in the Okanogan Highlands where the Kettle River Range's forested ridges, the Colville National Forest's 1.1-million acres of ponderosa pine and mixed conifer, and the Sherman Pass Scenic Byway's Continental Divide crossing create the remote northeast Washington outdoor destination that the Republic mining and ranching community has anchored since the 1890s gold rush—Black Beach Resort, the largest camping destination on Curlew Lake's southwestern shore, provides full hookup RV sites with 50-amp service, water, and sewer on manicured waterfront grass sites, one-, two-, and three-bedroom cabin rentals with full kitchens, lake views, and private bathrooms, three fishing and boating docks, a boat launch, boat and motor rentals, a swimming area, a playground, sports courts, volleyball, a convenience store, showers, WiFi, firewood, and hiking trails in a lakeside resort whose Curlew Lake trout fishery, the Colville National Forest access, and the Ferry County's remote high-country character create the eastern Washington lake resort experience that the Spokane and Tri-Cities markets drive to find in the Okanogan Highlands' untrafficked valleys. The largest resort on Curlew Lake. Boat and motor rentals on-site. Colville National Forest surrounds it. Full hookup waterfront RV sites with 50-amp electric, water, and sewer on manicured grass alongside one-, two-, and three-bedroom cabins—each with a full kitchen, private bath, bed linens, and lake views—create the accommodation spectrum for the fifth-wheel angler and the family whose cabin preference matches the angler's routine. Three fishing and boating docks, a boat launch, and the boat and motor rental fleet eliminate the trailer-and-launch logistics for the arriving guest whose Curlew Lake week centers on the trolling and still-fishing that the lake's rainbow and cutthroat trout population sustains through the summer and fall. The swimming area, playground, sports courts, and volleyball serve the non-fishing family members whose Curlew Lake morning does not involve a rod, and the convenience store, showers, and WiFi handle the daily practical infrastructure in a remote Ferry County setting where the drive to Republic's limited services is acceptable precisely because the resort itself provides the essentials. Republic sits in Ferry County at 2,600 feet in the Sanpoil River valley, in the county seat whose gold mining heritage and the Stonerose Interpretive Center's fossil leaf and insect collection from a 49-million-year-old Eocene lake bed—where visitors excavate actual Eocene plant and insect fossils from the shale deposits—create the Ferry County identity that outdoor recreation and heritage tourism values in northeastern Washington's relatively undiscovered interior. The Colville National Forest's 1.1 million acres encompass the Kettle River Range and Selkirk Mountains' southern flank—the Sherman Pass Scenic Byway's highest paved pass in Washington State at 5,575 feet and the White Mountain Lookout's Kettle Crest panorama create the recreation inventory accessible in 20-to-40-minute drives from Curlew Lake. Curlew Lake State Park, 1 mile north, supplements the resort's amenities with additional boat ramp access and the state park day-use area on the lake's north end. Black Beach Resort operates seasonally through the northeastern Washington summer and early fall, with the Memorial Day through Labor Day trout and bass fishing season the primary open period and the September fishing—when the Curlew Lake's cooling water improves trout activity in the shallower lake margins—extending the productive season into the fall color period. Reserve your waterfront site or cabin at Black Beach Resort and let the three docks, the boat rentals, and Curlew Lake's rainbow trout deliver the Ferry County Okanogan Highlands lake resort that the Pacific Northwest's most remote and rewarding eastern interior provides.