My Aussie brain conjured up images of the American Wild West when I heard the name “Dry Gulch”, and this was not the ONLY TIME it would happen in Canada. But dry Gulch Provincial Park is located just south of Kootenay National Park, a Canadian wonderland of forest, river, mountain, valley, bears and moose.
More often than not we stayed at Provincial Parks on our three week road trip around British Columbia in 2010. Dry Gulch is typical of a B.C. provincial park campsite – clean, spacious and in an amazing natural setting.
A fire is my idea of camping heaven, so I happily cajoled B.H. into purchasing wood and lighting the fire. It doesn’t matter what has gone down during the day, with a fire crackling away, and maybe a glass of red in my hand, suddenly life is fantastic.
See how neat and tidy Provincial Parks are?
Budget Camping Tip
Wood is for sale in Provincial Parks, but keep an eye out for wood for sale at the road side, especially in out of the way places – it is quite often a lot cheaper than in the parks. Carry an old shopping bag or sack to keep it in so it does not dirty other things. Our R.V. had a little compartment accessed from the outside that was the perfect size for firewood.
Have a Fantastic Friday. Do you have a camp fire planned for this week-end?
Old Town Sintra
One of my favourite things to do is to have a campfire in the summer. That’s why sea kayaking off of Vancouver Islands wild west coast is so appealing – loads of wood, no one around, beautiful beaches and you can have as many campfires as you like.
That sounds beautiful Leigh. We try to have campfire in winter because it is too hot in summer 🙂
Oh I so love open fires…something about sitting around, keeping warm and sharing dreams!
Would like to be able to have one this weekend, but the wind is crazy here at the moment!!
I wonder if sitting around a camp fire takes our souls back to our cave man days? 🙂
It looks as though you found a beautiful spot to camp. It’s great that the parks ake it so easy to have a campfire….heaven!
I would love to be there right now 🙁
Something very calming about a campfire, funnily enough we now have a huge fireplace in the kitchen and lit it yesterday for our first cooking attempt. We told the neighbors kids we will bring marshmallows next time for them to try xxx
Ha ha, You don’t need to go camping. Kids love marshmallows over the fire. Learning to cook on a fire will be fun 🙂
How wonderful. 🙂 You cheered my Canadian heart today with your descriptions of my old stomping grounds. I too feel that nearly everything can be made better with time around a campfire. 🙂
I am glad it cheered you. It cheered me and made me wish I was there travelling around in our RV again. It was such an amazing three weeks. 🙂
I love cooking on a campfire!
I know – the smell of the smoke and wood really makes it 🙂