Greg Gerber posted on July 23, 2010 14:54
VANCOUVER, B.C. -- This year British Columbia Parks has set a goal of attracting more visitors to two Lower Mainland provincial campgrounds, the Vancouver Straight reported.
Sea to Sky Park Services, contracted by B.C. Parks to administer 18 provincial campgrounds, relocated two log cabins featured during the 2010 Winter Games to Porteau Cove Provincial Park north of Horseshoe Bay.
"Cabins give us an opportunity to attract more people to the park, a demographic who don’t have camping gear or families with aging parents who still want to come together in the outdoors," said Eddie Wood, general manager of Mount Seymour Provincial Park in North Vancouver.
Wood announced a similar initiative at Chilliwack Lake Provincial Park, where this summer a nine-metre, four-person RV trailer rents for $125 per night, linen not included.
“We don’t want to take away from existing campsites,” Wood said, “especially as use over the past two years really picked up when fuel prices skyrocketed. We’re working with B.C. Parks to identify new areas of the parks for future sites or bringing in RVs at low season, such as May-June at Cultus Lake.”
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