Tuesday, December 24, 2013

How much would it cost to go across Canada?

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John


From BC to New Brunswick? I'll be driving a RV with a couple of friends. and also gas price?


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Hi: It depends upon three main things: 1) cost of accommodation in motels, hotels, hostels or camping sites 2) meals at restaurants, places like McDonalds or buying food in grocery stores and making your own and 3) gas prices which can vary as much as fifty cents per litre. Google says it is 5,694 km. from Vancouver to Moncton and would take 2 days and 16 hours to drive it. We have a 5th wheel and tow it with a diesel truck and get about 12 litres per 100 km. Therefore the gas if your RV is similar would be roughly $700.00 if you didn't take any detours and the price averaged out at $1.00 per litre. Good luck, I hope you get the chance to do it, it really is a remarkable trip. All the best, Shari

Is public camping in Canadian National Parks available for free if you have an annual national park pass?




kooimandud


Or is the annual national pass just to get in the national park. Is camping there only offered through private services or is there public sites. Im from the US and just trying to understand how Canadian Parks and campsites work. Also, some info. on provincial parks would be great too. Thanks for any help!


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The pass is just to get in the park. Camping is extra. I thought that's how it was, the last time I used a national park, but it's been a while so I checked on the website. I'm sorry I don't know how to post a link because I finally found a complete list of fees for everything including the daily fee for park use, but it wasn't easy to find. Try looking under fees, or email them to point out that the website isn't as informative as it could be.

Provincial parks charge only for camping, at least that's what the ones I've been to do here in BC. You will, however, find a few that don't charge you to enter the park but do charge to use the parking lots if you're not camping there, which comes to about the same thing since to get at the park you pretty much have to use their parking lots. You'll find info on provincial parks under "Ontario Provincial Parks" or whatever province you like.

Parks don't have private campsites in them as a rule, but the public sites are often operated for the park by private contractors. Same difference. The campground is there and you pay whoever comes around to collect from you, usually around dinnertime, or pay at a booth when you go in.




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