Pigeon Lake Provincial Park — Attraction in Alberta

We arrived around 530pm on the 26th, and there was no one working, so there was no way to get firewood or check in so we still drove in and set up and checked in the next day but no fire wood the first night kinda sucked. The next night, someone was there until 8 pm, so check their hours maybe. Campgrounds are well maintained. We were in the Bs. 5 min walk to the park and beach, If you use the trail. It was private but not secluded. Bathrooms were nearby, and they weren't porty potties. They were actual bathrooms. We had our 4 dogs with us, which worked out nice they were great. There were other dogs around, and a good chunk of them did bark a lot.... but turn the music up, and you're good. 11pm things got quieter, but we still had the fire going and low music just like everyone else. The beach is beautiful... but did have a public notice of swimmers itch reported even though it wasn't on the website. So we made sandcastles and just dipped our feet in ( and washed and rubbed them after). They have kayaks you can rent ( you download an app, etc ). Near the beach is a park-older but still nice. Handicap accessible. Also, there is a big green space you can use. Drinking is allowed at the picnic tables. There are bathrooms ( porter pottys) in the area. This area was fairly busy throughout the day. Showers are free, and when we went at 1pm, were busy for the women's. Pressure and temperature were perfect. One showers pressure was insane but I tried 2 more, and they were perfect. There is no designated place to brush your hair or do makeup, which was fine for me-there is two/three sinks, but then you're blocking everyone who just wants to wash their hands from using the bathroom. So area could be used if not busy. There is a small concession area that you stand outside of and can buy things for camping. For food, they generally only had ice cream. This is where you also buy firewood. Campground is only a 12 min drive from the Village of Pigeon lake and they had some cute places to visit. Overall really nice campground and would...

We were in the moose group site. It was pretty nice. Trails were good, fishing was good, and the site was in good condition. We did ask for a new light bulb in the cook Shack on the first day but never got one.

The biggest reason it only gets three out of five stars is that Pigeon Lake is a big fishing lake. And provincial parks on lakes where a lot of fishing takes place usually have a good fish cleaning stand. Usually a metal table with a hole in the middle and a water sprayer to clean everything off with potable water. Despite thousands of people fishing at Pigeon every summer, their fish cleaning stand consists of a metal tray hooked to the front of a garbage can at the dock. With hundreds of flies buzzing around it and no water to clean anything off of. Pretty gross. Do better, go look at Martin River Campground in Slave Lake.

Also, a third of the boat launch has been wrecked since mid April when the ice came off. For a place as busy as pigeon, only having 2/3 of the boat launch means most people can only launch one boat at a time unless the boats are smaller. And usually people are too afraid to do that even with small boats, so it's one at a time. Waiting for 40 minutes to load a boat when it's getting dark is not fun.

A big plus was free showers. That was an unexpected bonus that the people in our group really...

Staff are really nice, very accommodating and the place is well kept. Most washroom in the campsite are vault toilet but there's a shower room with flush toilet. The sites I was in (Loop E) was pretty shaded and have privacy in between sites.

**The downside(Nothing against the staff/place, more on like the people that stays here.)

If you come over the weekend, ridiculously loud. Loud AF for real. Group of guys had their music on blast, screaming, hollering and obnoxiously loud laugh which we could hear 3 sites down the road and we thought they would stop after quiet time, nope they did not stop until almost 1am. Parents do their own thing and let their kids bike right i  front of moving vehicles or vehicles with RVs backing up. Parents do not stop their kids from being loud even at night. I have been to other campground over the weekend during school break(even long weekends) but this by far has been the noisest and less caring parents I have ever encountered.

Seriously tell your kids to not bike infront or cross infront a...