Palmerton Beach | Wild Camping
Canada
Details
- Verified:
- 4 days ago
- GPS:
- 50.60599, -128.27648
- Altitude:
- 7.6 masl
- Website:
- None
- Contributor:
-
RR
Amenities
- Electricity:
- No
- Wifi:
- No
- Kitchen:
- No
- Restaurant:
- No
- Showers:
- No
- Water:
- No
- Toilets:
- No
- Big Rig Friendly:
- No
- Tent Friendly:
- Yes
- Pet Friendly:
- Yes
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Issues
| Reported | By | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| RR | Place is a Duplicate | This place is a duplicate of Palmerston Beach (0.3 km South East) |
Description
iOverlander cannot verify if wild camping is permitted at this location. It is your responsibility to verify local laws or obtain consent before staying the night.
Free camping at Palmerton Beach recreation site. No picnic tables or pit toilets. With your vehicle or short walk to the beach. Lots of bear activity in the area, be aware!
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Note: location is listed as Palmerton Beach, but is actually Palmerston. A couple of pullouts near the end of the road. Buggy. 5 min walk to the beach. Trail was muddy. Drove in around dusk and saw two bears on the road.
Report Check-InBumpy road to get there but made it easy with our RWD short bus. The flat spots for cars/vans are unremarkable but once you make it to the beach it's all worth it. Lots of sea life in the tide pools, even saw an otter doing its thing in the water. It's worth exploring all the paths that lead to different beaches.
The tent pads mentioned in previous comments are all overgrown and you really have to look for them through a seldom used trail.
Saw a bear on the road on the way out.
Report Check-InEnd of the logging road. Muddy path to the beach. 3 tent pads along the north side of the beach or head south to find the cabin. Turn around just before the end of the road for a flat RV pad for 1 or 2 cars
Report Check-InDidn’t end up sleeping here but would have been a great spot. Open gravel parking area for beach access surrounded by bush, well away from the main road. Room for several vehicles, with more parking along the little access road leading down to the beach trail. Informal stone ring fire pits.
There is a creek at the end of said access road and a short (under 1km) fairly easy, but very muddy trail that leads down to the beach. The pebble beach is beautiful and worth getting through the mud. A few people were tenting on the beach.
A local in Holberg assured me sleeping in your car at pretty much all trailhead parking lots in the area is fine and everyone does it.
The access road is very narrow (branches scraped my car a little) so I wouldn’t want to try getting in there with a trailer let alone a big rig.
As for the logging roads to get there, they’re rough - lots of washboard sections, rocks, and potholes - but I had no issues with my regular clearance front wheel drive car, and saw lots of smaller cars than mine on the roads and at trailheads. Just take it slow. A good spare tire wouldn’t be a bad idea though.
There’s no cell service but there was quite a lot of traffic in the high season, so I imagine if something happened it wouldn’t be long before you had help. There’s also a great pub in Holberg that I believe had a payphone.
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