Your season is decided by whether campers can find you and book you.
Campground and RV park websites that answer the phone's questions before it rings.
I build campground and RV park websites from Castlegar, BC. If the phone rings all day with the same questions about rates, hookups, quiet hours, and pets, your website is not doing its job, and plenty of parks have never had one at all. Both problems have the same fix, and it is faster than you think.
Built for family campgrounds, RV parks, cabin and tenting resorts, and seasonal-site parks across the Kootenays and beyond, whether the current website went stale years ago or the park has never had one and runs entirely on a phone number and word of mouth.
What a camper decides before the rig leaves the driveway
I treat a park website as the front gate that works while you are on the mower. It answers the questions campers actually have, shows the waterfront honestly, takes the booking request with dates and rig size attached, and lets you change seasonal rates and season dates yourself without a designer in the loop. For the many owners who have never had a website, that is the whole point: one calm, findable place doing the office work a seasonal business never has staff for.
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The trip is booked from a couch in February
Camping trips in the Kootenays get planned months out, from Calgary living rooms and Lower Mainland kitchen tables. A park whose rates and season dates are not online in winter simply never makes the shortlist, no matter how good the beach is. The parks that publish early win the bookings that were decided before the snow melted.
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An RVer books specifics, not vibes
Rig length, 30 or 50 amp power, water, sewer, pull-through or back-in: an RVer is matching a machine to a site, and any missing detail forces a phone call or a skip. Publish the specifics and you win the traveller who would otherwise call three parks and book the first one that picked up.
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The photo of the water does the closing
Families do not compare amenity lists; they picture the kids on the beach and the chairs by the fire. One honest golden-hour shot of the waterfront outsells a page of text. A park with no photos online is invisible, and a park with dark, dated photos reads as a gamble nobody takes with their one week of summer.
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A clear rulebook reads as a well-run park
Quiet hours, pet rules, fire policy, and check-in times stated plainly do not scare guests off. They attract the ones you want and quietly filter the ones you do not. Campers have all slept beside the wrong neighbours once; a park that publishes its standards is promising them that will not happen here.
Three builds that show what your park inherits
There is no campground in the portfolio yet, so here is the honest version: three real builds that show the standard the first park gets.
What a park build covers, gate to waterfront
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Site types, hookups, and the park map
Tent sites, RV sites with 30 and 50 amp power, water and sewer, pull-throughs, cabins, and seasonal sites, each laid out with the park map so a camper can pick the loop they want. The specifics an RVer needs to commit are published instead of hoarded in the office binder.
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Seasonal rates, season dates, and the booking request
Nightly, weekly, and monthly rates, seasonal-site terms, and opening and closing dates, all editable by you. Beside them sits a booking request form that captures dates, party size, rig length, and hookup needs, so a request arrives in your inbox ready to confirm with one reply instead of a game of phone tag.
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Photos that sell the water and the trees
The build is planned around photography that earns the booking: the waterfront, the shaded loops, the clean washhouse, the fire rings at dusk. I direct what to shoot and where it goes, because a Kootenay lakeside park has a product city campgrounds would kill for, and most of them hide it behind a wall of grey text.
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Getting found by the rolling traffic
Highway 3 and Highway 6 travellers search "campground near me" and "RV park" plus a town name from the passenger seat. I structure the site for those searches and align it with your Google Business Profile, so the park shows up with accurate season dates and hours when someone twenty minutes away is deciding where to stop for the night.
The standard that comes with every build I ship.
- Park homepage that sells the waterfront and the quiet
- Site map page with tent, RV hookup, cabin, and seasonal site types
- Seasonal rates and season dates you can edit yourself
- Booking request form that captures dates, rig length, and hookup needs
- Rules page covering quiet hours, pets, fires, and check-in
- Photo galleries planned to sell the lake, not just list amenities
- Local SEO and Google Business Profile alignment for near-me camping searches
- WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility baseline and fast loading on highway cell service
The questions page that finally quiets the office phone
Ask any park owner what the phone rings with and the list is nearly identical: what are your rates, when do you open, do you have 50 amp, can I bring the dog, are fires allowed right now, what are your quiet hours. Every one of those calls interrupts a septic repair or a check-in, and every caller who does not get through books somewhere else. I build that list as a real page, structured, linked from every corner of the site, and written in the exact words campers search and ask.
It stays true because you can edit it yourself, from a phone, in season. The BC Wildfire Service posts a campfire prohibition, you change one line. Freshet moves the opening weekend, the gate page says so the same day. Rates shift for the shoulder season, done before lunch. The page never goes stale by June, and the phone goes back to being for the bookings that need a human.
- Rates, season dates, and hookup details answered in one place
- Quiet hours, pets, campfires, and check-in times stated plainly
- Owner-editable from a phone, in season, no designer needed
- Written to match the exact questions campers search and ask
Deposits, guest emails, and honest rates, handled right
A site in this category is judged on more than looks. These are the obligations and reassurances I build in by default, so the business stays credible and protected.
Deposits handled by a compliant processor
If the park takes booking deposits or seasonal-site payments online, those transactions belong inside a PCI DSS compliant processor like Stripe or Square, or the reservation platform you already run. I keep card capture off the website entirely through hosted checkout, so guest card numbers never touch your server and your liability stays small enough to sleep on.
CASL consent on the returning-guest list
The guests who come back every July are the most valuable list a park owns, and emailing them legally requires express consent under Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation. I build signup that captures and logs that consent, names the park as the sender, and includes a working unsubscribe, so the season-opening email lands in inboxes instead of in trouble.
PIPEDA privacy for guest information
Names, emails, licence plates, and rig details collected through booking requests put a park under PIPEDA. I collect only what confirming a stay actually needs, ship a plain-language privacy policy, and make it obvious what you keep and why, which reads as exactly the kind of park people trust with a week of their summer.
Accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA
I build to WCAG 2.2 AA: keyboard navigation, real contrast, labelled forms, and alt text on every photo of the lake. It widens who can plan a stay, from grandparents booking the family reunion site to campers using screen readers, and it keeps the park ahead of where BC accessibility law is steadily moving.
Honest rates, taxes, and cancellation terms
BC consumer protection expects advertised prices to be truthful, and campers expect to know the real cost before sending a deposit. I show rates with taxes and fees stated plainly, put the cancellation and refund policy where nobody has to hunt for it, and keep season dates current, so a booking never starts with a surprise.
Want this standard on your site?
One conversation, no pitch deck. Tell me where the business is stuck and I will tell you what I would build.
What a build like this costs.
Most builds here start at $2,000, or $189 a month on Own It Monthly
The Trailhead · typical timeline 2 to 3 weeks
A small park needs to be findable and bookable before the season opens, not after: rates, season dates, hookups, rules, photos, and a booking request form, live in weeks. Trailhead is my starter tier, so there is no smaller step to point you at; this is the on-ramp itself.
The honest answer depends on what you actually need, not on a package name. The free check-up or a ten minute call settles it, no pressure either way.
Campground reservation software and listing platforms does the plumbing. KMD wins the decision.
The software takes the booking that was already decided somewhere else. The website is where the deciding happens, and for a small park that is the difference between a full July and a full season.
Platforms like Campspot, CampLife, Let's Camp, and BookYourSite run the reservation grid: real-time availability, site locks, deposits, and check-in. Listing apps and directories put your pin on a map beside fifty other pins. All of it is useful, and none of it is yours. A reservation grid cannot explain quiet hours, and a directory listing cannot show the view from site 14 at sunset.
What the category tool covers
- Real-time site availability and online reservations
- Interactive reservation maps with site locks and deposits
- Rate rules, minimum stays, and payment processing
- Directory and listing-app visibility among competing parks
Where the upgrade actually pays off.
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Put rates, season dates, and hookup details one tap from the homepage, so the office phone stops carrying the whole front desk.
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Stop letting a Facebook page be the only place the park exists online. It cannot rank in a near-me search, hold a site map, or take a booking request at 10 pm.
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Collect guest emails this summer so next season's openings sell in winter to people who already love the place.
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Get one set of golden-hour photos of the waterfront every year. For a lakeside park, that picture is the hardest-working asset on the entire site.
Questions park owners ask from the gatehouse
How much does a campground website cost in BC?+
The parks this page is written for fit my Trailhead package: $2,000 up front, live in 2 to 3 weeks, covering the site map, seasonal rates, rules, photos, and a booking request form. There is an Own It Monthly option at $189 a month if spreading the cost across the year suits a seasonal business better. Larger parks that want real-time reservations scope higher.
I have never had a website. Is that a problem?+
It is the normal case. Many of the park owners I talk to are starting from zero, running everything through a phone number and maybe a Facebook page. Starting fresh is honestly easier than untangling an old site: I handle the domain, hosting, writing, and photo direction, and you approve things in plain English. No technical homework.
Can campers book a site online?+
The Trailhead build takes booking requests: a form capturing dates, party size, rig length, and hookup needs, landing in your email so you confirm with one reply. If you already run reservation software like Campspot or Let's Camp, the site hands campers into it cleanly. Full real-time booking is a bigger build, and most small parks fill the season without it.
Can I change seasonal rates and season dates myself?+
Yes. Rates, opening and closing dates, the campfire status line, and the rules page are all owner-editable from a phone. A seasonal park cannot wait on a web person in July, so every part of the site that changes with the season is built for you to change it.
Can the site show which sites have hookups?+
That is core to the build. Each site type gets laid out plainly: tent sites, RV sites with 30 or 50 amp power, water and sewer, pull-throughs, cabins, and seasonal sites, with the park map beside them. RVers book specifics, and the park that publishes them wins the guest who would otherwise call around and book wherever someone answered.
Will travellers actually find the park on Google?+
That is the design goal. Highway 3 and Highway 6 traffic searches "campground near me" and "RV park" plus a town name from the road, and the winners are parks whose website and Google Business Profile agree on season dates, hours, and location. I structure the site for those searches and line the two up, which is exactly where most parks quietly lose.
What about quiet hours, pets, and campfires?+
They get a real page, not just a laminated sheet at check-in. Quiet hours, pet rules, and the current campfire status answered before arrival set expectations, attract the guests who respect them, and cut the repeat phone calls. When the BC Wildfire Service posts a campfire prohibition, you update one line yourself and the page stays truthful.
What happens to the website in the off season?+
It keeps working. Winter is when next summer gets planned from Calgary and the Lower Mainland, so the site shows next season's dates and rates and keeps taking booking requests while the park sleeps under the snow. The email list you gathered in August is how the May long weekend sells out in February.
Does Own It Monthly make sense for a seasonal business?+
It fits one well. The full Trailhead price is $2,000; Own It Monthly spreads that into twelve payments of $189 with no credit checks, and you own the site outright at the end. For a park whose revenue arrives between May and September, matching the cost to the year instead of one lump sum can be the difference between doing it now and losing another season to the wait.
Who builds this
I am Brett, the person behind Kootenay Made Digital. I plan, design, and build every site myself from Castlegar, BC, so the person you email is the person doing the work.
Founder, Kootenay Made Digital · Castlegar, BC
Get the park booked before the ice is off the lake
The season is short and it is decided early. A park that can be found, understood, and booked from a February couch fills the shoulder season, quiets the office phone, and stops losing guests to whichever park answered first.