wood or gas BBQ

You shouldn't have too much trouble finding a campground with various types of wood bbq's. You won't find any type of gas fired ones, and you'll likely have to bring your own supply of wood.

Most have some kind of woodburning appliance, but I don't recall seeing any 'BBQs'. One style is low to the ground, and is a contained campfire, sometimes with a metal grill on top. The other style has a metal box on a post with a sort of grill, this style is generally useless. I would not put food directly on either, they tend to be pretty nasty. . If you actaully want to cook , I would not use either. Buy a gas fired hibachi style BBQ for about $25. You can also buy a Coleman brand gas stove, two burner, for about $75.

You can buy wood at most campgrounds, or bring your own.

As long as there are no fire bans on. Depends on the time of year you are going. And this year is looking to be pretty dry, we were hiking in the Rockies two weeks ago and couldn't believe how dry it was.

You might want to purchase a hibachi or some other small type of BBQ to bring along with you. You can purchase a small gas BBQ for camping with a small propane container at Cdn Tire for very little money, these are table top BBQ's.

You could buy a metal grill similar to the racks that fit into your oven. Build your fire and put your grill across the top of the supplied metal grid. If they don't for some reason have a "fire ring", there's no doubt you can find some rocks. Many campsites have a wood supply, sometimes free, sometimes to but but I would buy a couple of bundles and stash them just in case. You will need an axe. Once you have finished eating in the evening, you can then feed the cooking ring with more wood and settle into the ancient camping out tradition of sitting around the fire, swapping stories. Actually for cooking outside make sure you have a good light so you don't cremate your food. Canadian Tire also has some other useful and cheap gizmo's. You can buy a little "rack" you put over the fire to make your toast to go with that bacon and eggs. It's better than toast from the toaster!!! M'mm, I'm salivating at the thought. I am being presumptious and I apologize -- but make sure you keep some of your wood dry for the morning and ALWAYS make sure the fire is out before going to bed. Oh yes -- bears -- don't leave any food outside. Bears can smell a free meal for miles and miles. If you are going to go walkabout when you're camping, take a bell, so you don't surprize Ms Bear. I'm sure you know all this but I'd like you to enjoy your trip through our magnificent Province.

Tamborine

You may find this website of interest for all of your camping needs.It seems that not everyone outside of Canada will know what Canadian Tire sells.Almost anything you will need for camping will be there.Most towns of any size will have a store....some pretty small,some very large.

http://www.canadiantire.com<BR><BR>Hope this will help..
Cheers

What you'll probably see most of is something like this, scroll down to the guy pouring coffee. It's a sort of tall, half circle of heavy metal with a grill on top. You might need some practice in getting the wood positioned right so that you get a cup of coffee rather than a roaring fire but generally they're easy to use. Some places have the flat round pits.

Wood is sold in any provincial campground, and in private ones. Unserviced sites - you're on your own. Make sure you have a hatchet to make yourself some kindling as the wood tends to be large pieces.

Now, all of that is assuming there won't be a fire ban.

Don't forget to check the fire bans, they are important.

Fires are awful.

Check out the photos of the fire we had here in the Crowsnest Pass Alberta a couple of years ago.

Fire in the Crowsnest

Yep, purchase a hibachi, or a cheap charcol tripod BBQ - like this http://homehardware.ca - BBQ I think I saw one in a flyer for something like $14.

Check Alberta wildfire status here

Alberta Fire Hazard Maps

Also includes maps of currently burning wildfires...

have a great trip