Canadian Camping Market
Supply, demand, and pressure across Canada's camping industry — the first publicly available snapshot joining campground inventory, 8-year Google search intent, and real-time park availability into one view.
01 Supply — Canada's campground universe
Reservable parks across 929 jurisdictions + 1,992 private-directory listings + 9,230 informal / dispersed sites on OpenStreetMap.
Private-directory associations
- AHLA (Alberta Hotel & Lodging Assoc.)334
- CCRVA (Canadian Camping & RV Council)475
- Camping In Ontario359
- Camping Québec824
Reservable counts come from each jurisdiction's official reservation system (Camis for BC/PC/ON/MB/NS/YT, ArcGIS for Alberta Parks). Private-directory listings are not deduped across associations — a single physical campground may appear in more than one. OSM features are open-data crowd-mapped sites including informal and backcountry locations.
02 Demand — 8 years of Google search intent
Indexed to 2019 = 100. Pre-COVID baseline visible. Source: DataForSEO Labs historical_search_volume.
General Camping
vs 2019 pre-COVID: +155% · 9,959,510 annual searches in 2025
RV / Motorhome
vs 2019 pre-COVID: +23.3% · 1,541,900 annual searches in 2025
Banff / Jasper / K-Country
vs 2019 pre-COVID: +111.2% · 4,321,460 annual searches in 2025
Investment / Acquisition
vs 2019 pre-COVID: +383% · 816,230 annual searches in 2025
Search-intent volume is Google's reported monthly searches in Canada for each keyword. Numbers are rounded by Google. Summer (Jun–Aug) is the booking-execution peak; leading-edge (Jan–Apr) is the planning-season signal for the upcoming summer.
03 Pressure — current park availability
Share of park-day observations where reservable parks have zero bookable sites of any kind. Looking 90 days ahead. Latest snapshot 2026-05-27. History accrues from May 2026 onward — deepens monthly.
Pressure is the share of park-day observations where a park has zero bookable sites of any equipment type. Computed daily from each jurisdiction's reservation system; we snapshot 90 days ahead. Pressure is currently shallow — history began accumulating in May 2026 and deepens month-over-month.
04 Velocity — where the demand is right now
Last 7 days of state transitions across 326 active parks: 26,147 bookings, 96,678 cancellations, 320,590 operator releases.
| Park | Jurisdiction | Net bookings (7d) | Cancellations | Churn % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tribune Bay Provincial Park | British Columbia | +171 | 242 | 58.6% |
| Pacific Rim - Green Point | Parks Canada | +15 | 52 | 77.6% |
| Waterton Lakes | Parks Canada | +11 | 337 | 96.8% |
| Clearwater Provincial Park - Pioneer Bay Campground | Manitoba | +11 | 99 | 90% |
| Whiteshell Provincial Park - Betula Lake Campground | Manitoba | +4 | 5 | 55.6% |
| Kejimkujik - Jeremy's Bay & Jakes Landing | Parks Canada | +1 | 2 | 66.7% |
| Rideau Canal | Parks Canada | +-2 | 3 | 300% |
| Yoho - Kicking Horse | Parks Canada | +-4 | 74 | 105.7% |
| Banff - Two Jack Lakeside | Parks Canada | +-5 | 81 | 106.6% |
| Paint Lake Campground | Manitoba | +-5 | 8 | 266.7% |
| Arrow Lake Provincial Park | Ontario | +-5 | 8 | 266.7% |
| Glacier - Illecillewaet | Parks Canada | +-7 | 22 | 146.7% |
| Whiteshell Provincial Park - White Lake Campground | Manitoba | +-7 | 14 | 200% |
| Yoho - Takakkaw Falls | Parks Canada | +-8 | 19 | 172.7% |
| Salsman Provincial Park | Nova Scotia | +-9 | 11 | 550% |
Bookings, cancellations, and releases are state transitions observed between consecutive daily availability snapshots over the past 7 days. Net bookings = bookings − cancellations. Churn % = cancellations / bookings. Releases include operator inventory openings.
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