Backcountry camping - Jasper National Park - Parks Canada

Wabasso Campground and Whirlpool Group Campground will remain closed for the 2026 camping season. The Parks Canada Reservation Service will launch for frontcountry camping bookings on Tuesday, January 27, 2026 at 8 am MT.

The parking lot off the highway is busy and there’s a line-up for the outhouses next to a Parks Canada information stand featuring maps from years past. To the left, a wide accessible trail leads to the well-trod bridges and pathways crisscrossing Marble Canyon in Kootenay National Park in southern B. C. just 50 kilometres from the Alberta border. The walk up the length of the canyon is short, barely a kilometre, with a little detour near its end where the ubiquitous red chairs of the national park system sit on a rise looking back toward the parking lot. It’s about as far as most people venture, but those red chairs don’t mark the end of the trail system through the valley.