Northern BC Provincial Parks

July 24th occupancy update:
Sowchea Bay is full
Whiskers Point has 17 sites available
Crooked River has 16 sites available
Paarens beach is 75 % full
Beaumont is 25% full
Carp will not fill up this weekend

Crooked River is full July 16

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Sowchea Bay Park is full, July 16, 2026.

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Its looking to be a HOT weekend, wouldn't it be nice to spend it on the lake?
Thursday July 16 update post ( 12 pm )
Sowchea Bay is Full
Paarens Beach is half full
Purden lake has 15 available campsites
Beaumont has lots of room, flush toilets, cell service and an nice sandy swimming beach
Carp Lake will not fill up this weekend

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Lots of FCFS camp sites available at Beaumont Provincial Park for this May long weekend.

Carp is OPEN :)

Lets go fishing!

Carp will not fill up this weekend ( unless your talking about your rainbow limit)

All our parks are open for the weekend

The Long Term Stay at Crooked 10 spots have been filled, it is a minimum of 4 weeks ( 28 days) , as such the earliest date a LTS site will be open is June 10. The LTS sites have never filled up at Paarens Beach or Carp Lake.

There are 10 people in line waiting for the park gates to open, which will be taking the 10 available spots.

Getting Ready for Camping?
Purden Lake is open and ready to go !
Crooked River will be open 11 am on May 13th, there is already a line up for LTS, we will update if that line up reaches 10. We are onsite and the snow is off the roads.
Paarens Beach, Beaumont, Sowchea will be open May 15th,
Whiskers Point will be open May 15th, we are onsite and working to clean up.

We made it to km 9 at Carp on Saturday and are confident we will be able to get in this Thursday/Friday May 15. Reminder that the park gates are not locked, but we typically clear some trees from the road as we head out.

With this Fantastic weather, I am thinking about camping!
Tried to take a drive around Crooked River ( Bear Lake) yesterday, got a little stuck 😁 but it is sure melting fast !

Whirling disease The BC government maintains a whirling disease monitoring program in the east Kootenay region adjacent to areas in Alberta where whirling disease has been detected