Tent Camping in Canada

Mountainaire Campground and RV Park

26 RV Sites, 5 Cabins, 16 Tent Sites, 3 Onsite RV/Trailers

Mountainaire Campground and RV Park in Nanaimo, BC, offers 29 RV sites, 5 cabins, and 16 tent sites, with 30-amp service and room for rigs up to 57 feet. Sites come in two categories, full-hookup back-in 30-amp carrying water, sewer, and electric, and water-and-electric back-in 30-amp, each with site-delivered WiFi, a fire pit, and a picnic table. Three on-site RV rentals are available for guests arriving without a rig. Note the electrical: service here is 30-amp throughout, so a rig wired for heavier draw will need an adapter and some load management. The grounds are gated, with laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, firewood, propane fills and exchange, and on-site dining. Pets are welcome, and there's a playground. An arcade, horseshoes, volleyball, a pond, and creek frontage fill the forested, mountain-backed grounds, with swimming, snorkeling, kayaking, fishing, biking, and planned activities. Nanaimo sits on Vancouver Island's east coast, the island's main ferry gateway from the mainland. Rates for sites, cabins, tent spots, and RV rentals are on the booking page. Full-service sites are limited and book first.

from $32/night

Robert's Roost Resort

46 RV Sites, 2 Cabins, 12 Tent Sites, 2 Mobile Homes, 1 Onsite RV/Trailer

Robert's Roost Resort in Quesnel, BC, offers 47 full-hookup RV sites, 4 cabin and mobile home rentals, and 12 tent sites, with 20 and 30-amp service and room for rigs up to 60 feet. Sites are organized by amp service and orientation — shaded back-in and pull-in options at 15, 20, and 30 amps, plus fully equipped RV rentals that sleep three for guests arriving without a rig. Full-hookup sites carry water, sewer, and electric with cable TV, site-delivered WiFi, and a picnic table. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, and firewood cover the essentials. Pets are welcome, with a dog park on the grounds. Recreation is built around the lake. Boat docks, a boat ramp, and boat rentals get guests onto the water for fishing, kayaking, paddle boarding, and swimming, and the property adds a disc golf course, ball field, sport courts, horseshoes, volleyball, and a playground. A clubhouse handles indoor gatherings, and golf and wine tasting are nearby. The resort sits on Dragon Lake at the south edge of Quesnel in BC's Cariboo region, about 90 minutes south of Prince George. Rates for sites, tent spots, and rentals are on the booking page. The summer season is the busy one — reserve ahead for July and August weekends.

from $29/night

Fairview Park Camping & Marina

15 RV Sites, 4 Tent Sites, 2 Cottages

Fairview Park Camping & Marina in North Bay, ON, offers 15 full-hookup RV sites, 1 cottage, and 4 tent sites, with 20 and 30-amp service and room for rigs up to 80 feet. Sites come as back-ins and pull-thrus, each carrying water, sewer, and electric with site-delivered WiFi, a fire pit, and a picnic table. At 80 feet the pull-thrus take a longer rig than nearly anything else in the region, though the 20 and 30-amp service means a rig wired for heavier draw will need an adapter and some load management. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, a dump station, and on-site dining cover the essentials. Pets are welcome. The marina is the anchor: boat slips, boat docks, a boat ramp, and a fishing pier put guests straight onto the water, with an outdoor pool, a hot tub and sauna, a beach, a pond, and swimming, paddling, fishing, and biking alongside. There's a casino on the property and golf nearby. The park sits along the Lavase River minutes from downtown North Bay, with Lake Nipissing opening up just beyond. Rates for sites, the cottage, and tent spots are on the booking page. Boat slips book separately — ask when you reserve.

from $30/night

Woodland Park

3 RV Sites, 10 Tent Sites

Woodland Park in Sauble Beach, Ontario, offers three full-hookup RV sites and 10 tent sites a short walk from Lake Huron, with 30-amp service and rigs accepted to 60 feet behind a gated entrance. Back-in and pull-through categories join a beach, boat ramp, boat docks, recreation center, and on-site dining. Three sites run in back-in and pull-through categories, both carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30-amp, sized to 60 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. One thing to check: service is 30-amp, so a rig wired for heavier draw will need an adapter and some load management. Sixty feet accommodates a long coach with a tow. Ten tent sites and cabins round out the lodging. A general store, dump station, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. A beach, boat ramp, and boat docks open the water for boating, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, and fishing, with a recreation center, playground, walking trails, hiking, dog park, horseshoes, on-site dining, and productive birding filling the rest. Pets are welcome. Sauble Beach is the reason to be here. Seven miles of continuous natural sand along Lake Huron's freshwater coast make it the most visited freshwater beach community in Canada, and the campground entrance is a short walk from it. The water is warm by Great Lakes standards and the sunsets over open water are the town's daily event. The Bruce Peninsula runs north from here toward Tobermory, the Bruce Trail, and Bruce Peninsula National Park's grotto and turquoise water. Summer is decisively the season. Reserve well ahead for July and August.

from $40/night

Tiny Village Ottawa River

13 RV Sites, 2 Tent Sites

Tiny Village Ottawa River in Deep River, Ontario, offers 13 RV sites and two tent sites on the banks of the Ottawa River, with 30-amp service and rigs accepted to 75 feet. Back-in, pull-through, and water-only pull-through categories join glamping cabins, boat docks, and a beach in Renfrew County. Thirteen sites run in back-in, pull-through, and water-only pull-through categories, the serviced sites carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30-amp, sized to 75 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and site WiFi. Two tent sites round out the accommodations. One important note on the rental cabins and glamping units: they are classified as housekeeping cabins, which means guests bring their own supplies — eco-friendly products are appreciated. A general store, dump station, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. Pets are welcome. Boat docks and a beach give direct river access for boating, canoeing, kayaking, and swimming, with walking trails, hiking, volleyball, and birding from the property. Off-roading is nearby. The Ottawa River defines the Ontario-Quebec border here, flowing through Canadian Shield granite and boreal forest past the whitewater rapids that have drawn canoeists since the fur trade era made this the primary commercial artery of New France. Deep River is among Ontario's most scenically pristine river communities, and the property delivers genuine remoteness within driving distance of Ottawa. The Ontario season is short. Summer is decisively the peak — reserve well ahead.

from $44/night

Tiny Village Bon Echo

1 RV Site, 6 Tent Sites

Tiny Village Bon Echo in Ompah, Ontario, offers a water-and-electric pull-through RV site and six tent sites in Canadian Shield country, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 30 feet. Cabins, an outdoor pool, beach, boat ramp, kayak rentals, and on-site dining serve a glamping-focused property near Bon Echo Provincial Park. The RV site is pull-through with water and electric on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 30 feet. Two things to plan around: the site carries water and electric rather than sewer, and the 30-foot cap rules out most modern coaches. Six tent sites and classic rental cabins round out the lodging. A general store, propane fills, restrooms, showers, portable toilets, firewood, and on-site dining handle the practical side. Three policies worth knowing: check-in runs 3pm to 9pm only, checkout is 11am, and while there is no boat docking, launching is free. An outdoor pool and beach anchor the summer, with a lake, boat ramp, boat rentals, and kayak rentals opening the water for boating, canoeing, kayaking, and swimming. A recreation center, playground, walking trails, hiking, corn hole, and a river fill the rest, with offroading nearby and genuinely dark skies for stargazing. Bon Echo Provincial Park is a short drive and is where the Canadian Shield reaches its most dramatic expression — the Mazinaw Rock cliff rises roughly 330 feet straight out of Mazinaw Lake, carrying more than 260 Indigenous pictographs on its face. Summer is the short Ontario season. Reserve well ahead, and plan arrival within the check-in window.

from $40/night

Edson Lions Park Campground

29 RV Sites, 8 Tent Sites

Edson Lions Park Campground in Alberta offers 29 RV sites and eight tent sites just off the Yellowhead Highway, with 30 and 50-amp water-and-electric service and rigs accepted to 45 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Back-in categories at both amperages join a 30-amp pull-through tier, with a laundry, showers, firewood, and forested grounds. Twenty-nine sites span back-in water-and-electric 30-amp, back-in water-and-electric 50-amp, and pull-thru water-and-electric 30-amp categories, carrying water and electric with site WiFi, sized to 45 feet, with fire pits. Plan around the hookups — sites carry water and electric but not sewer, so manage tank capacity and use the dump station. Eight tent sites round out the lodging. A laundry, dump station, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. The forested grounds are the setting, with planned activities through the season. The amenity set is deliberately practical, which is exactly right for a community campground built around a comfortable stopover rather than resort programming. Pets are welcome. The Edson Lions Club operates the campground as a community facility, and that shows in how it is kept — clean, well maintained, and genuinely affordable in a way commercial properties on this corridor rarely match. Edson sits on Highway 16 in the foothills country between Edmonton and Jasper National Park, which makes this one of the most useful stops on the drive west. Jasper's mountains, lakes, and icefields are roughly two hours on, with Edmonton about two hours east. The Alberta season is short. Summer is peak, and Jasper-bound traffic fills the corridor from June through August. Reserve ahead for those months.

Sun Retreats Sherkston Shores

66 RV Sites, 29 Cabins, 46 Tent Sites, 55 Cottages

Sun Retreats Sherkston Shores in Port Colborne, Ontario, offers 66 full-hookup RV sites, 84 cabin and cottage units, and 46 tent sites across 560 acres on four kilometers of Lake Erie beachfront, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 70 feet behind a gated entrance. Waterfront and premium full-hookup categories join a 30-amp tier, alongside a water park, splash pad, and mini-golf. Sixty-six sites run in full hookup 30-amp, premium full hookup 30/50-amp, and waterfront full hookup 30/50-amp categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site WiFi, sized to 70 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. The waterfront category is the one to request. Eighty-four cabins and cottages and 46 tent sites make the lodging inventory far larger than the RV side. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, showers, firewood, boat storage, recycling, and food trucks handle the practical side. The property was formerly Sherkston Shores Beach Resort & Campground. A water park and splash pad anchor the summer, with an outdoor pool, hot tub, sauna, and the beach alongside. Mini-golf, a fitness center, clubhouse, game room, arcade, sports courts, tennis, pickleball, volleyball, basketball, golf cart rentals, a playground, dog park, and bar fill the rest, with boating, paddle boarding, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, hiking, biking, live music, and Niagara wine country nearby. The scale rivals dedicated resort destinations. Summer is decisively the season. Reserve well ahead.

from $37/night

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

Cape Croker Park

276 RV Sites, 1 Cabin, 1 Tent Site

Cape Croker Park in Neyaashiinigmiing, Ontario, offers 276 RV sites, a cabin, and a tent site on Georgian Bay, with 20, 30, and 50-amp water-and-electric service and rigs accepted to 40 feet. Premium waterfront, premium, back-in, and pull-through 20-amp categories join Powwow Grounds sites, with a beach, boat ramp, and walking trails. Two hundred seventy-six sites span 20-amp back-in, 20-amp premium, 20-amp premium waterfront, 20-amp pull-through, 30/50-amp, and Powwow Grounds categories, carrying water and electric, sized to 40 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Two things to plan around: the sites carry water and electric but not sewer, and most categories are 20-amp, so check the 30/50-amp tier if your rig needs more. The premium waterfront category is the one to request. A cabin and a tent site round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, showers, portable toilets, and firewood handle the practical side. A site holder must be at least 18, and alcohol rules apply — check with the park. A beach and boat ramp open the bay for boating, canoeing, kayaking, and swimming, with walking trails, hiking, biking, volleyball, a pond, playground, pavilion, bar, and productive birding filling the rest. The park is owned and operated by the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation on their traditional territory, between limestone bluffs on Colpoys Bay. Summer is the season on the Bruce Peninsula. Reserve well ahead.

from $45/night

Gallagher Lake Camping & RV Resort

89 RV Sites, 11 Cabins

Gallagher Lake Camping and RV Resort in Oliver, British Columbia, offers 89 RV sites and 11 cabins on a spring-fed lake in the South Okanagan, with 30 and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 83 feet, open all year. Voyageur full service categories — including cable and a no-pets option — join a partial service tier, with a private sandy beach and pickleball courts. Eighty-nine sites span Voyageur full service, Voyageur full service 50-amp, Voyageur full service with cable, Voyageur full service no pets allowed, and Voyageur partial service categories, carrying water, sewer, and electric where noted, sized to 83 feet. Two things worth knowing: the partial service category does not carry the full hookup set, and there is a dedicated no-pets section for guests with allergies or a preference for quiet. Eighty-three feet accommodates the longest coaches. Eleven cabins round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane exchange, dump station, restrooms, showers, and recycling handle the practical side. A private sandy beach on the spring-fed lake anchors the recreation, with sports courts, tennis, pickleball, volleyball, horseshoes, walking, hiking, biking, a playground, pavilion, dog park, and picnicking filling the rest. Wine tasting and golf courses are close, along with Tickleberry's, the Golden Mile Fruit Market, and Vaseaux Lake. Oliver calls itself the Wine Capital of Canada, set in the only recognized desert ecosystem in the country. Summer and harvest drive demand. Reserve well ahead.

from $35/night

Riverside Camping & RV Resort

100 RV Sites

Riverside Camping and RV Resort in Whistler, British Columbia, offers 100 RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 51 feet, open all year — the only RV and camping resort within the Resort Municipality of Whistler. Voyageur full service categories at both amperages join partial service and multi-use tiers, with a disc golf course, mini-golf, and on-site dining. One hundred sites span Voyageur full service 30-amp, Voyageur full service 50-amp, Voyageur partial service, and Voyageur multi-use categories, carrying water, sewer, and electric where noted with site WiFi, sized to 51 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Confirm your tier before booking, as the partial service category does not carry the full hookup set. Cabins round out the lodging. A laundry, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. A disc golf course and mini-golf anchor the on-site recreation, with sports courts, volleyball, bocce ball, gem mining, walking trails, hiking, biking, a pond, lake, creek, playground, and on-site dining filling the rest. Skiing is minutes away. Pets are welcome. Being inside the municipality is the whole proposition. Whistler Blackcomb is the largest ski resort in North America, and the same terrain becomes one of the continent's most complete summer adventure destinations — the Whistler Mountain Bike Park, the Peak-to-Peak Gondola, the Valley Trail, the Whistler Sliding Centre, Olympic Plaza, and the Trans Canada Trail are all reachable without a car. Both ski season and summer bike season drive hard demand. Reserve as far ahead as you can for December through March and July through September.

from $25/night