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If you’re mapping out a camping trip but quietly dreading the crowds that come with Canada’s best-known parks, there may be another way. A new data analysis has sifted through social media and hiking uploads to pinpoint the country’s most scenic yet underrated camping spots, places drawing attention online, but still considered off the mainstream radar.
Credit: Nova Scotia Parks
Betway.com reviewed social media and hiking platform data to determine which underrated camping spots offer the most striking views. The study examined the number of hashtagged Instagram posts, TikTok posts and uploaded photos on AllTrails for each location, then assigned a normalized score out of 100.
Kananaskis Country topped the list with a perfect score of 100. Located in the foothills of Alberta’s Canadian Rockies, the parks in the area have generated 201,000 Instagram posts, 10,100 TikTok posts and 458,565 images on AllTrails—leading in all three categories.
Second place went to Fundy National Park, which recorded 41,800 Instagram posts, 1,208 TikTok posts and 21,997 AllTrails photos, earning a score of 94.5.
In third, Wells Gray Provincial Park received a total score of 86.5, followed by Dinosaur Provincial Park at 83.5. The Alberta site, located 220 kilometres east of Calgary and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, ranked fourth overall.
Ontario’s Pukaskwa National Park placed fifth with a score of 77.8, supported by 5,000 Instagram posts, 126 TikTok posts and 5,678 photos on AllTrails.
Rounding out the top eight are Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park (69.5), Tombstone Territorial Park (61.0) and Cape Chignecto Provincial Park (57.6).
The most scenic underrated camping spots in Canada:
- Kananaskis Country, Alberta
- Fundy National Park, New Brunswick
- Wells Gray Provincial Park, British Columbia
- Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta
- Pukaskwa National Park, Ontario
- Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, Alberta
- Tombstone Territorial Park, Yukon
- Cape Chignecto Provincial Park, Nova Scotia
The rankings were compiled through desk research, identifying lesser-known camping spots across Canada, then measuring their visibility across the three platforms.
