The Strathcona Wilderness Centre offers year-round camping sites, bunkhouses and picnic sites for you to enjoy. The rustic sites feature a fire pit and firewood, picnic tables and potable water access with an outside tap at the Information Centre. You'll find clean outhouses along with flushing toilets during office hours.

Onsite activities

• Walking and hiking trails - view the trail map (1.3 MB)
• Disc golf
• Outdoor fitness equipment 
• Bring your own lawn games
• Photography
• Wildlife watching

Nearby places to visit

Short drive to the Beaver Hills Biodiversity Trail, Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, Elk Island National Park and the Cooking Lake Blackfoot Provincial Recreation Area.

Bookings and rates

Campsites

• Campsites need to be booked a minimum of 48 hours in advance. Payment is required with a campsite booking. 
• Campsite booking rates (1.2 MB) .
• Book your campsite online
• Please leave your pets and alcohol at home.
• The sites are for tents only (no campers or RVs, etc.).

Picnic sites

• Cookhouses and picnic sites need to be booked a minimum of 48 hours in advance.
• Bookings are for a minimum of 3 hours (rental fee applies). Payment is required with a picnic or campsite booking. 
• Picnic site booking rates (1.2 MB) .
• Book a picnic site online
• Fires at Cookhouse and picnic site fire pits must be out one hour prior to closing.
• Please leave your pets and alcohol at home.

Please note, if you have booked a SWC birthday party, cookhouse bookings are 1.5 hours minimum. 

Bunkhouses

The bunkhouse site sleeps a maximum of 32 people in 4 bunkhouses. Each bunkhouse accommodates 8 people on 4 wooden bunkbeds. Pack sleeping bags, light mattresses, and pillows in your camping gear. Amenities include picnic tables, fire pit for cooking meals and an outhouse along the trail just minutes from the bunkhouses.  Add a picnic shelter to your rental package.

• Campsites need to be booked a minimum of 48 hours in advance. Payment is required with a campsite booking. 
• Bunkhouse booking rates (1.2 MB) .
• Please leave your pets and alcohol at home.
• Book a campsite today (book campsite #1 for the bunkhouses)