Natures Hideaway Family Campground — Hotel in Alberta

This is one of the biggest money grab camp grounds in Alberta. Please make sure you read all the rules as it is a hard core Karen that wrote them. Things you should know before going. There are tons of places with lakes and rivers that are more beautiful, better serviced, better priced and the most important less rude staff.

The negative experience this weekend.

All visitors coming even for 10 mins will need to pay $10 each. No AC allowed to be used at the site. No generators allowed, even when it was 37C Anything they can charge you for they will. Sani station is $15 per use Do not bring any weed as its not allowed There is NO back up power, when their power is out, the water is out as well. (owners left the camp gound and let their staff deal with the power outage on Friday for 7 hours), the power was already spotty all weekend. Owners will not credit you for anything even the power outtage with no water. They say its not their fault. A. (Yes it is, at least allow the guest to use their own generator. B (get some back up power man! You can't just rely on the grid) You can't walk out of your camp site with alcohol Definitely the rudest staff I've ever seen in Canada for a campsite, they will yell at you if you don't read the rules ect. Prepared to have staff driving around the camp grounds every 10-20 mins to make sure you obey all rules. They will rudely come to your camp ground if you have music on or too loud after 11pm. We weren't even that loud. Basically anything above a whisper is not allowed. Its the most expensive camp ground in AB, $50 a day for water and 20 amp power. They have sewage there but they try to make you pay for the $15 sani dump instead. Every person I talked to were not happy about this camp ground. Extra spotty power and water. Best if you just filled your water tank instead. They will charge by the tent/people and not the site, $380 total for a group of 12 people for tenting in the weekend. More bugs than most campsites, its the real natures. $12 small wood bundle and $12 ice packs plus gst. Lets hope it isn't 30C + when you go. No privacy at all. You have 5 other sites within 15 feet of you. Lastly, come here if you want to feel like you are being billed for everything.

The positive sides River is right there Movie and band...

I've been camping for about 25 years and I've finally found it...the worst campsite in AB! Do you want to relax in your trailer on a hot day and read a book with the A/C on...don't come here. Is it a little cool and you want to have a fire and visit friends....don't do that here unless you sit in silence.

We stayed this last weekend after booking online a few weeks ago. You can't pick your site, only request proximity to friends sites. We got there and they had us split up across 2 sets of roads. Why not just tell us that when you took our money?

First night there, we had the pleasure of dealing with a "security guard" at 3 different points in a 40 minute time period. "quiet time", and I use that term loosely, is policed by some dude with a headlamp that I am sure has hearing problems. He barged into our site all 3 times demanding we stop talking and turn down our music. Fun fact...it was the site a road over. We didn't have music. Maybe he was wanting us to pass along the message to the louder crew for him.

Next night, there was a legit party down the way. Our "friendly" neighborhood guard must have forgotten his hearing aid that night and didn't once let them know of the rules we had been so rudely taught 24 hours earlier.

I can promise I will never recommend this place to anyone...ever. It is a dump pure and simple. It is extremely unkept, dirty, loud and the sites with service are shared with other sites. It was weird to have to go to my neighbors site to plug in 50ft away. Our friends site sided up to 3 other smaller sites. They could wake up in the morning go out there door, take 5 steps forward and be standing on the other sites poop pipes.

This place is a conundrum wrapped in an enigma. Either people have become a whole lot less picky, or covid have scrambled their brains, it is the only explanation as to how this has any positive...

This place it TERRIBLE!!!! Think of the worst campground you’ve stayed at, this is worse! We had a constant smell of sewer, even while sitting around the fire. They don’t maintain any part of the campground. It is terribly rocky everywhere: campsites, roads, etc. you CANNOT enjoy a bike ride through the campground, you’re constantly jerked around…if you want to roll your ankles at any time, you’ll stay here. There’s no grass, just weeds. There’s no field area to play bocce ball, frisbee, or badminton. If you want a friend to come see you while you stay here, they charge $7 per person. I have not seen more than $6 for a sani dump at any campground in Alberta…here they charge $15.75!!! 3 RCMP drove through on Saturday and then another on Sunday…this is somewhat concerning as it is a private campground. Are there so many problems that they need constant surveillance? There’s so much garbage around the beach area, no cleanup. There’s a massive amount of empty propane tanks right near the playground. They never cleaned it out while we were there…so dangerous! We know that buying wood at a campground costs more than elsewhere, but they charge $13 for 5 pieces! That’s excessive. We read how strict they are about dogs being on leash so we respected that. How we, on the Friday night between 11 pm - 12 am, we had our dog off leash by the fire, sleeping in her chair. They came by twice asking us to put her on leash. The day we left, we found a nasty letter tossed under our trailer threatening us that we’d have to remove our dog off the campground as they’d received multiple complaints. This is extremely disturbing as she stayed right by us, no one would have known otherwise. That tells us that they hate dogs. The whole experience was TERRIBLE. I’d rather stay in a Walmart parking lot. If you’re considering giving this place...