So I got up early and drove the Jeep over to the Wapiti Campground. I was told to be there between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. in order to get a first come, first served site in the Section AA parking lot that has electrical hook-ups.
I got there around 7:45 and there was an RV already in line. Several others lined up behind me.
In a prior post, I talked about the process to get one of these sites. If you already have one, you have to renew by 10:00 p.m. the night before you are scheduled to leave. If you don't, you site is given to one of the folks lined up in the morning.
They assigned me Site AA27, and I went to check it out. If the site has been vacated, you can move in, but check-out is at 11:00, so they tell you to plan on coming after that. It's great that they allow you to secure a site, and then leave. Those with rental motorhomes and no towed cars, stay out exploring all day, so they may not come back to move into their site until the evening.
Back at the Overflow Campground, Linda finished up her two-hour coffee, and then we packed up to make the short 15-mile drive.
On the way, we took the little side road 93A as there is a dump station and potable water filling station that not as many people use. It's a nice option rather than the very busy, harder-to-get-into dump station at Wapiti. After that stop, it was just a short drive to the campground.
We backed into our site while no one was around us, and barely got plugged in and set up before the rains came. Here are the photos I took later in the afternoon.
The electrical pedestals are on a grass median behind the RVs on the side we were on.
The sites are tight, and there's certainly no "it" factor, but they served our purpose well. There is a nice bathhouse, ....
and though there aren't picnic tables or firepits at the sites, there is a picnic area right across from our rig with tables and firepits that campers were using. There was also free firewood (above), if you could find some dry enough to burn.
Now the sites aren't very level. Even with our levelers, we had to put our front end up on blocks, and the sites were even more unlevel going down away from our spot.
Here are the sites on the bathhouse side of the parking lot.
We had good 4G service, but since we were in Canada, our data was limited to 0.5GB per day per phone, and then we would be charged $5 USD for each additional 0.5GB we wanted.
I drove into the village of Jasper to log on to a Wi-Fi hotspot and upload some photos. However, because it was raining, hoards of tourists were in town trying to do the same thing. All the hotspots were overloaded and speeds were slow if you could even get logged on.
So, I abandoned that idea and returned to the campground. It was an afternoon of reading and taking naps.
Oh, and I looked at hikes for tomorrow. I picked out three, all in different areas - Wilcox Ridge in the Columbia Icefields area, Edith Cavell Meadows at the foot of Edith Cavell Mountain, and Bald Hills at the end of the Maligne Lake Road. I'll gauge the weather in the morning and make a decision .... with a back-up plan.
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