Gordon Bay Provincial Park

Cara Webb

05/21/2024

Gorgeous Bay, so many campsites, pictures make them look more private than they actually are. I had never been able to book one in summer so went in May! Friendly park staff, clean washrooms with hot showers, lots of kid friendly things to do, so many picnic tables at the beach, swimming in summer.

Elaine Smithers

08/13/2024

This place is a little slice of paradise. Ample parking, flushing toilets. 10/10! There is a beautiful little spot with some tiny islands within paddle boarding distance, the water is so clear. A sacred place, leave no trace!

Lauren Ricketts

04/17/2024

Beautiful park with a great campground! Nice facilities, a convenience store nearby, crystal clear water, and incredible views.

Andrew Nicholls

06/25/2024

I went camping at the provincial campground and it was a very short stroll to the beach for kayaking and laying in the sun. They have SPF 30 sunscreen available right there at the bathrooms! I was very impressed, I've never seen that anywhere else in BC.

Brïan Graham

06/25/2024

This is THE iconic family campground that one makes memories that last a lifetime. We've been coming to Gordon Bay Provincial Park for over 30 years with our kids, our friends and ourselves, and the good memories just keep stacking up! By far, the best campsite is the group campsite as it not only has hot and cold running water at the sinks in the shelter, but on rainy days when fires are allowed you have under-cover wood stoves for heat and electrical outlets for charging, kettles, griddles etc... It's the closest campsite to the beach. And you have all of your friends in one place... There is a downside: most of the area is tent camping with only a couple spots to park RVs or trailers. We've made so many memories here with our kids growing up together, and lifelong friends with the parents who brought their kids. We've windsurfed, waterskied, snorkeled, swung off the rope swings further along and across the lake, and generally just relaxed and enjoyed the marginal cell service over the years. Not to say we haven't had our bad experiences: vandalism to our cars, buses burning in the parking lot and kids having epileptic fits requiring ambulances... But this place fosters great memories of life with one's family and friends, and life will have laughter and tears combined. Gordon Bay filled our albums with those memories and I hope it will for many, many more years. June 2024: Just returned from another great camping trip. Some things have changed which need a comment or two: The iconic log boom that ran across the bay of the beach is now gone--it broke apart during the winter storms and blew up onto the beach. While we were there, loggers finally arrived to buck up and remove the logs, and supposedly there's a modern floating boom on its way. In the interim I saw two boaters come into the swimming area causing consternation on the part of campers/swimmers/kids/parents/staff... This needs to be addressed immediately before someone gets hurt!! This is just a small example of the underlying management of this facility. Most of the staff onsite are friendly and helpful, but there are many examples of how the management of the park is more concerned with making money than making memories for families. Bathroom facilities that are half finished, there's the cheapest toilet paper ever made, the bathrooms have broken windows, the propane heaters never warm up the building and the showers that don't work properly. Garbage overflowed in containers, and the beaches weren't cleaned overnight. We still had a great time camping. But it's getting harder to book a campsite and it's costing more money every year to camp. One would expect the experience to get better under those terms, but it actually feels like the campground is slowly rotting away without any of the money being used for improvements.