Parks Canada also offers novice campers the opportunity to get their training while spending the night outdoors using its gear. Where appropriate, those sessions provide for a full Canadian experience with canoe and fishing lessons. (Before any recreational vehicle owners get worked up, we’re only talking about traditional tent camping here.) Research conducted by Parks Canada, he said, showed that the biggest barriers for most people to camping were lack of knowledge about how to do it and lack of equipment. “Camping is sort of an essential Canadian experience.”

Source: New York Times July 05, 2019 19:41 UTC