Campers can now only book 14-day stays, down from 23 days, at the province’s most popular parks
When Kris Dougherty started a Facebook group in 2017 for people who enjoy camping in Ontario provincial parks, there were only 100 members. Today, there are more than 56,000. Many joined throughout the pandemic, when camping become a popular choice for people eager to get out of the house.
At the most popular parks – Algonquin, Bon Echo, Killbear, Pinery and Sandbanks – the maximum length of stay has been reduced to seven nights. Campers are divided over the changes, but Ontario Parks says they will help ensure more people who want to camp are able to do so. Mr. Dougherty says the new rules have mostly ruffled the feathers of retirees and a small group of people who are accustomed to parking a trailer on a site for the full 23 nights.
For those people who do wish to spend more time camping, Ms. Kaakee hopes the new rules prompt them to discover other parks, perhaps booking a 14-day stretch at Algonquin and another two weeks somewhere else, or perhaps visiting a park not covered by the new rules. The booking system allows sites to be booked five months from the start of a trip. Some people will book 23 nights, even though they only intend to stay for the last week or so, thereby essentially getting ahead of the line by a couple of weeks. Once they’ve booked their site, they’ll eventually cancel the first couple of weeks, which they never intended on using.“It’s harder to exploit and it gives more people an opportunity to get up there,” Ms. Kaakee says.
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