Aug 01 2007
Camping in Gros Morne
I’m going on vacation soon. I hope to doing some camping, hiking, fishing and kayaking in Gros Morne National Park for about a week or so.
Have you ever been there? Can you tell me about your experiences there? Are there any specific areas you recommend I check out? Any specific activities? What’s the best place for tent camping?
We’re looking for a quiet camp site as close to the wilderness and as far away from the general public as we can get, yet not too far from showers and washrooms. Right now I’m thinking we’ll spend a couple nights in one area of the park and two nights in another area and so on. But we’re curious what anyone else might know about the park. Web sites and brochures never really give an accurate picture. Thanks.
UPDATE (Aug. 20/07): The conclusion to this post is also called Camping in Gros Morne. I forgot I’d already used the title.
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Tags: camping, gros morne, newfoundland
why would you want to visit a place called “large dull”?!
:)
showers! washrooms! jesus… your camping trip has ammenities that half the planet does not have….this is the fourth year of taking anja on a canoe trip into algonquin park (started when she was six)…talk about population density…we go for three or four nights and normally do two to three portages, the longest around 700 metres….back to population…last year it in on the third lake we encounterd a group from the states that as an organization had been coming to the park for over 70 years…it was a private jewish school and its group had over 125 youth….it was just somewhat humerous to travel a day and a half in and then be surrounded by people, and choked at the portage point….then again had i been a terrorist…an automatic weapon and a number of clips and alas my potential for a sexually satisfying afterlife would have been assured….
I have not been to this park but a friend who worked in the park service has always spoke highly of this region and very much enjoyed his time working in that area…
washrooms, eeesh…..;-)
ahhh algonquin has “thunder boxes” which can be quite luxurious, positioned in such away as to afford quite spectaluar surroundings to view as one is perched in concentration..gives a zen like quality to the endeavor….I have been on kayak trips where everything and i mean everything is brought out….defecation in ammo boxes….I have to go now and do my monty python scotsman routine….
What the HELL are you talking about, Tom? No speak English?
okay i will draw a picture
- washrooms and showers should not be part of a “camping” trip lexicon
- ontario has too many people
- we go camping and it would be less crowded in the park across the street from my apartment…
- thunderboxes are a simplified outhouse…basiclly no walls…just the seating portion
- gros morne from what i have heard is a great park
- i sometimes have awful violent thoughts,
- some parks, this was a nature reserve..require campers to leave NOTHING behind….so you take EVERTHING out
- have a good trip
- box, a box, luxury, we lived in a paper bag, got up, cleaned the lake….my apologies to monty python…
Thank you for spelling it out for me.
If I was going on a long trek, I wouldn’t care about washrooms. And at some point in our vacation, we’ll probably live without washrooms. But it doesn’t hurt to have some means of washing my crotch once in a while.
Agreed, Ontario has too many people. If we can’t get away from people at our first campsite, wherever that may be, we’ll move — away from washrooms if need be.
A thunderbox. Never heard that term before. Last time I used one of those was in the military. Dug a big hole, dropped a thin log over it, then hung on tight while I logged out.
Taking everything out with us sounds cool. That may have been the rule at Keji in N.S. the last time I was there. Leaving everything as we left it is our general rule anyway, though it seems a great deal of people use the parks as an excuse to empty a stack of two-fours as quickly as they can.
I could easily live without a washroom if I knew there was a lake or stream I could refresh myself in every day. I’d prefer that over most campground showers.
I’ve heard good stuff about Algonquin Park. It’s not that crowded, is it?
oh yeah…its busy
after the long weekend in September is probably a better time to go but the chap i go with has a heightened sense of school for his children, where as i figure my kids will learn despite school….i am just too lazy to homeschool….actually i am looking at reaquiring my licence here in ontario so that i may once again make money off the public teet…and frig with the minds and outlooks of untold youth…hard to believe by my grammer and spelling here that i was once a fine and upstanding educator…yeah right…never said i was a good teacher…