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Camping
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 by GetawayBC.com
There are plenty of Cowichan Valley campgrounds to choose from if you have a hankering to pitch a tent and roast some marshmallows.
On the shores of Lake Cowichan is family camping destination Gordon Bay Provincial Park, which boasts warm water, sandy beaches, hiking trails and fresh-water fishing. The 51-hectare park is also a popular spot for waterskiing and windsurfing.
The Beaver Lake Resort and Campground offers everything from shady areas to set up a tent and RV rentals to cabins and a full-service resort, while the Lakeview Park campground offers an on-site wharf with a marina close by as well as showers and full-service RV sites.
Bamberton Provincial Park offers a 225-metre sandy beach and an abundance of arbutus trees.
The Youbou Marina campground along Cowichan Lake has a boat launch and boat rentals as well as a laundry facility.
In Crofton, the Osborne Bay Resort has both cabins and camping, while the Beehive campground and RV park is set adjacent to the Mill Bay Nature Park with a variety of trails and creeks.
Country Maples and Bald Eagle campgrounds cater to RVers and tenters. Both are on the Chemainus River.
And the Cowichan River Provincial Park – which is broken into the Skutz Falls and Stoltz Pool campgrounds – is 1,414 hectares of scenic outdoor recreation opportunities, from swimming, canoeing, white-water kayaking and tubing, to camping, fishing and hiking.