Marble Canyon Provincial Park

Save $18. Use a roadside pullout instead (at least for the 2018 season) The mountains are beautiful here. And it's worth stopping for a picnic lunch. But I won't camp there again. It's possible this was simply a bad year. The water pump is broken (some reviews mention it has been broken for a long time) and with flooding there is no longer a beach and the mosquitoes are relentless. We needed to use those smelly mosquito coils in the afternoon and evening. We booked in for 3 nights (we paid cash upfront) I think we would have just packed up that first morning... that unused $36 could have been a contribution to BC Parks. But even when things are back to normal, this campground will still just be a glorified parking lot that would be better suited as a picnic area. Tents can be set up in gravel tent pads at a lower elevation than the parking lot. Campers are not permitted to walk outside the gravel areas or walkways to protect the environment. If you have a camper, trailer or RV (like we do) you'll be parking in the parking lot, adjacent to your tent pad and picnic table. All incoming traffic from the highway is routed past your site (this isn't a campground where there's a main entrance that branches off to several loops) day and night. And if people were hoping to find a camp spot and missed it the first time, they loop back to the highway and come through again for a 2nd or 3rd pass (the road is one way traffic only) Because the road is fairly narrow, it feels like you've just invited everyone into your camper (we had windows open whenever we could, and people would literally roll down their windows and ask us for directions, etc while we we inside our camper having lunch or dinner). We 'lucked out' and chose a spot next to the garbage area. We had extra traffic 4 times on Saturday to check the garbage bins. There was a shady looking car that pulled up several times over the weekend to pick up bottles from the "recycling" bin. He even got into a shouting match with a camper when she asked if she could pass his vehicle (he had parked in the road between our camper and the garbage bins). But, strangely we only saw the camp operator during our 4 day, 3 night stay. During the time of day when people were using the campground as 'day use' we would have a fairly constant stream of people walking through our spot to get down to the water. I can only imagine they were confused because our camper was set up on the gravel and we only kept chairs and a couple of items around our picnic table. This is the 2nd worst campground experience I've stayed at, ever. I wish I had read between the lines of the other reviewers who gave relatively high stars, despite traffic noise and unusual "park setting". I can't get my money or my time back. But hopefully someone else will be spared the same experience. p.s. on the plus side, the ladies toilet didn't run out of toilet paper and the picnic tables were clean.

If you're tenting be aware that for most of the sites you'll be camping on are gravel or a cement pad. Hand pump is broken so no running water. $18 camping fee must be paid by cash deposited in envelope -- and it gets checked nightly! Mosquitos were bad in the evening. Some road noise but not bad.

Out of the way and quiet compared to alternatives in the surrounding area. Worth a visit in a low key kind of way if you are in the area

Small and cozy campground, lots of drop toilets and an old pump for cold water, the lake is swimable with warmish temperatures. Place for RV and tents. 18 dollars a night is the fee. It's just off the highway so it can be noisy and there were lots of mosquitoes

Love this place....