What Should You Do With Your Camp Canada Pay?

Vancouver

We begin in the city of Vancouver, the city known for its beauty, surrounded by snow-capped mountains and the deep, blue Pacific Ocean is just on your doorstep, (although you won’t have a door because you’ll be camping.)

Now’s the time to be a proper tourist and bike around Stanley Park or you could play it by ear and see what’s on while you’re there and have a look around. Activity options:

• Visit the Granville Island Public market

• Snowshoe in the mountains

• Play volleyball on the beach

Next, we’re in Whistler, one of the best places to find adventure. Whether it’s biking, skiing or hiking; you can do whatever you want here. Give anything a go - leave your comfort zone, you’re in a whole new country.

A bit of a longer hike to the next stop: Wells Gray Provincial Park. This place has natural beauty everywhere you look; now’s the time to have a simple stroll and just admire everything around you: the valley carved by glaciers and borne from volcanoes.

Jasper National Park

This place is full to the brim of different types of unbelievable wildlife and spectacular nature that you wouldn’t see anywhere else. Jasper National park is a must see place that everyone can enjoy. Explore the forests and lakes and glaciers and mountains … the list goes on, you won’t be short of anything to see here, in fact you might have too much to see.

Travel down Icefields Parkway a 232km long highway, through two national parks, in-between mountains to Lake Louise. On this highway appreciate the breathtaking scenery that you go past. However, just before you get to Lake Louise you’ll be stopping off at Yoho National park - enjoy.

Once you arrive at Lake Louise, we think you can guess what you’ll be doing here … that’s right, canoeing. Canoeing in-between great mountains on clear waters… unbeatable.

Banff National Park

There’s so much to choose from in Banff, season depending. Go skiing, biking, hiking. Appreciate the unpolluted air, unlike any city you know, Banff is famous for its iconic lifestyle and stunning surroundings.

Calgary

Our last stop after an astonishing trip is the captivating city of Calgary, there’s so much to do here, so make the most of the last place you’ll be in Canada.

Calgary is most famous for the Calgary stampede during the summer. Other activity options:

• Calgary tower

• Calgary zoo

• You can’t go to Canada and not watch the world famous ice hockey, so catch a Calgary Flames game

There are so many things you can do so don’t worry about running out of ideas.

Although, a full-on trip across a country isn’t for everyone - especially after a long but unforgettable summer of Camp Canada. You might just want to spend a week or 2 in just one or a couple of places and maybe not go from one end of the country to the other.

We’ve put a list together of other options too, so if you’re not heading to the West Coast, there’s a few inspirational ideas to get you going…

Butchart Gardens

British Columbia

Visit the 55 acres of gardens. With art made out of flowers, this is the place for bit of down-time and time to relax.

Jump on the #75 bus (from Victoria) and hop off at the stop called ‘Butchart Gardens’ for $2.50 there and $2.50 back.

Fancy something creepy? How about a quick visit to what’s thought of as a ghost town:

Uranium City

The residents of the city were forced to leave because of the collapse of the economy after the uranium mine closed.

The population went from 5,000 people in the 1980s to 70-200, it’s a bit of a spooky place to visit, uncover the unique history there and see something different.

Ontario

From Ontario you can travel out to different cities from around $9 on a megabus, making it very easy to travel within the province. So you can see everything you want to see.

Discover the incredible city that is Toronto, visit Niagara Falls and explore smaller and more unique cities and towns.

• A full day to Niagara Falls from Toronto for $99

• Get great food at one of the farmers’ markets in Toronto - a different one is held everyday of the week so there’s no shortage of anything new, or something that reminds you of home to feed your appetite

• Check out Canada’s incredible capital city and at the same time learn more about the history of the amazing city you’re in at the Canadian museum of history, in Ottawa for $20

How about exploring the Cypress hills?

The Cypress hills are right in the south of Canada. It’s the place to discover the outdoors. You’ll be able to camp, with a nightly camping fee or with full service at $40.00.

Be one with nature for the day ($10.00) or three days ($24.00) and get there on the bus or coach (with the closest bus and coach station being Ross Glen Dr SE.)

It doesn’t matter if you like adventurous sports like horse-riding or water skiing or just want a nice hike, do what you want to do. It could be:

• Biking

• Camping

• Horse-riding

• Fishing

• Hiking

• Water activities - kayaking, paddle boarding, water skiing

• Winter activities - snowshoeing, fat-biking, luge, natural ice rinks for skating and ice hockey

• Zip-lining

The longest river in British Columbia: Fraser River

Flowing over 1,375km, it begins in the West of the Rocky Mountains at Mount Robson Provincial park and ends at the Strait of Georgia at Vancouver. Home to the world’s largest salmon migration and most productive salmon fishery in the world.

Go visit the river renowned worldwide.

Fraser river doesn’t just provide you adventure seekers with water and salmon, it flows near the Blackrock Mountain, so if you want to explore up high, then this is the place to go.

Fishing (for 2 nights $490) or the white water rafting ($179).

Notre Dame Basilica Cathedral

La Basilique Notre-Dame - one of Montreal’s most popular attractions.

You’re at the Notre Dame Basilica, no you’re not in France, you’re in the first ever Cathedral that was built in North America and, arguably one of the most popular attractions in Montreal, Quebec.

Montreal is in the area of Canada that does mainly speak Canadian French at home but don’t worry, most people in Montreal can speak both French and English so don’t think you have to learn a new language, although it might be useful.

The Cathedral is sadly not the original; the first one was built in 1647 but since then, it has burnt to the ground and rebuilt again. The architecture is still the same and still as stunning as the first, and when you stand in the building this unbelievable architecture completely surrounds you.

If Montreal interests you more than just seeing the Notre Dame Basilica Cathedral, a tour of the city, including a visit to the top sites comes in around £67.72. Typically on these tours you’ll find: Main attractions of the city (including the Notre Dame Basilica) The cobblestones of Old City (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) Plains of Abraham, site of a decisive battle Something even bigger and maybe even better than Niagara Falls, yes it’s possible, visit Montmorency Falls, a whole cascade taller than Niagara (Optional) St. Lawrence river cruise - an additional amount.

Now you know a few ideas to make this one of the best summers of your life.

Camp Canada + travelling = 1 incredible summer.