Camping
Rent-a-Tent (and Enjoy Fresh Lobster!) at Whale Cove Campground in Digby, Nova Scotia
The scenic drive from Digby to Brier Island, Nova Scotia offers incredible, lush summer views. Its dark trees are slightly reminiscent of the thick fairy-tale forests of Bavaria in Germany, which may explain in part why this part of Nova Scotia is so popular with German and other European tourists.
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Are you an Anti-Camper? Try Parks Canada’s oTENTiks in Fort Langley!
We just discovered camping paradise and it’s in our own backyard! I’m not one to call camping an idyllic experience. Sure, there are aspects I love such as kids running free, gallons of fresh air, the fact everyone pitches in to make the experience a success. But there is much
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Camping in Comfort: Sundance Lodges, Kananaskis Country
As far as family camping weekends go, this one was not off to the most auspicious start. Our Calgary weather, which had been 30ºC and sunny on Thursday, had taken a sharp nosedive to 5ºC – with pouring rain no less – by Friday lunchtime. Half of our parental team was still
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Learn to Camp with Ontario Parks | No Gear Required
Have your kids already started talking about summer vacation and you’d love to take them camping but don’t know how or where to get started? Do you flip pages in the camping gear flyers and wonder how the photographs make pitching a tent look so easy? Are you still reading
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Five Campgrounds in Canada that you must visit!
May 6 2015 Summer travel planning is heating up! With our Canadian dollar weaker than it’s been in many years, now is the perfect time to consider an affordable, family camping holiday in one of our incredible Canadian national or provincial park campgrounds. There’s really nothing more Canadian than
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Family Fun at Tofino’s Crystal Cove Resort
When planning a family holiday it is easy to look to the all-inclusive resorts and the kid-themed adventure parks as the easiest solution to keeping all family-members happy. For a recent Spring Break vacation we decided to go old-school and look to Mother Nature for the kids’ entertainment. Fresh air,
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Embrace Wildhood! Choosing the right RV for your family
My first taste of RVing was a revelation. We borrowed my in-law’s trailer and headed to a full service RV resort complete with full hook ups, cable TV, a recreation centre with indoor & outdoor pools, a hot tub and a racquetball court. It was so far removed from my
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Why you Should take Young Kids Winter Camping
At this time of year, many Canadians are dreaming of sunny week-long destinations and sipping frosty beverages by the beach. While I admit to having a few of these daydreams over the last few snow-filled weeks, somehow when I walked into our local Mountain Equipment Co-op to purchase a
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A Camping Adventure: Dinosaurs, Trains and more!
I’ll be honest. I’ve been a complete chicken about taking my kids camping. My poor boys are 3 & 5 years old and this summer was the first time they slept in a tent. They LOVED it, of course, what kid doesn’t love camping?! So for our first camping adventure,
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The Long Haul: 5 Ways to Make Trailer Camping Easy
My husband and I bought our first camping trailer when we were both just 17 years old. It was a 1963, 13 foot Scamper and it had survived a small fire and years of mothballs. It was not pretty by any stretch of the imagination, and to be perfectly honest,
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