This stop is a happy
accident. We’d planned to stay at Dry
Gulch Provincial Park a few miles to the south but continued on because it had no
dump station. Dumping was mandatory
after 4 days without, so we continued north to Radium Hot Springs and found
this NP campground with full hookups. The campground (Redstreak) has 242 sites, 90% of which are unoccupied.
The Columbia River Wetlands, above, are the longest stretch (112 miles) of undeveloped wetlands in North America. This picture was taken from an overlook just south of Radium Hot Springs.
This information sign was at the overlook mentioned above.
When we set up camp, it takes about 15 minutes to get the rig chocked, unhooked from the pickup, leveled, stabilized, and hooked up to utilities. While we’re doing the setup, Artie and Ranger inspect the campsite and check their pee-mail. Turns out, the pee-mail locations were booby trapped with pitch from evergreen trees. Trish spent a tedious hour removing the nasty stuff from their paws and elsewhere, no end to the fun.
There was a group –
herd, flock, gang, whatever - of
mountain goats hanging out behind the visitor center where we stopped to inquire
about dump stations, have never seen them that close to civilization.
What a fortuitous event! That is the most beautiful area--we have played in the Radium Hot Springs pools but not camped there. We were going and coming from Banff. My folks have stayed in Kootenay. It's interesting that the Columbia has such a long run of wetlands, continuing right down to Portland in the winter. Glad you caught the pitch before it was all over your bedspread, etc.
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