Canada 2014: Percé to Sugarloaf Provincial Park

Monday and Tuesday, September 15 and 16.

158 miles and camped at Sugarloaf Provincial Park, Campbellton, New Brunswick.  Interestingly, New Brunswick is in the Atlantic Time Zone, so we had to advance our clocks ahead by one hour.

We had sites 46 and 47 at Sugarloaf.

I just couldn’t get enough views of Percé Rock.  Here are a few more.  That rock just fascinated me!

We left Percé just about 9:00 Monday morning.  The drive on the south side of the Gaspé Peninsula was completely different then the north side drive last week.  The southern side is much more developed.  The fishing villages were larger and offered more services.  This side of the peninsula is definitely more tourist oriented with better highways, larger and more frequent rest areas, and most important, more Tim Hortons restaurants.  :-))

Sugarloaf Provincial Park is the equivalent of a State Park in the US.  This park is unique in that it is geared for year round use.  There is a camping part in the summer, and a ski resort for the winter months.  Unlike the RV parks we have stayed in so far on this trip, this one was more private and “woodsy.”  It reminded us of our favorite local park at home, Cranberry Lake State Park.  Unlike Cranberry Lake, however, we had water, electric, and sewer hookups.  The bath house even had laundry facilities.

Crossing the bay into New Brunswick.

We liked the camping sites so much, we decided to sign up for a second night.  Good thing, because it rained most of the next day.  Tuesday turned out to be a good catch up day.  We did laundry and some grocery shopping, along with some reading and napping.

Wednesday we head for Fundy National Park for a couple days.