selkirk provincial park

Spent the long weekend of Labour. Day at this park, not a lot of privacy, very loud, noise ban at 11:00pm was not adhered to by campers nor park rangers. Terrible , small, dirty beach. Numerous beachfront campsites with absolutely no privacy (group sites) . Very limited supplies in the park office store. 1/2 hour drive to Simcoe or Port Dover. Electric sites offer NO PRIVACY, no flush toilets in the main campground area, the one comfort station offers showers and flush toilets but it's located in the crowded electrical site area , so a very long walk from some of the sites and especially if you are handicapped. Again, this Provincial Park offers discounts to those who present a handicap parking pass. This seems to be a Party type of park for the younger crowd, as it is approximately a one hour drive from Hamilton.

We spent two nights at Selkirk, looking for a unique camping experience. We are experienced Ontario campers, but had yet to spend time on lake Erie. We stayed on site #14, which offered poor privacy. Our site was attached by a path to several others, so privacy wasn't great. We had a clear view of our neighbours at all times, and the opportunity to hear their conversation in great detail!As for activities... fishing is an absolute NO GO!!! This is my first experience being 100% unable to fish at a ON Provincial Park. The beach was our only option, along with a short 2km walking trail. The beach was in ok condition, but the water appeared muddy. The dog beach was in rough shape, and wearing sandals was a must due to all the jagged rocks. It met our needs, but there are far nicer "dog beach" areas in other provincial parks. See PINERY PROV PARK!We purchased wood on-site, which was extremely wet! Wow... a frustrating experience, and again a first at an ON Prov Park. Our campfire suffered greatly, and so did our ability to cook!Haggersville (15-20 mins drive) offers all your needed amenities, and the town of Selkirk has a LCBO/Beer Store attached to a "General Store" with outrageous prices. Red Hots for $5 anyone?!

This was a excellent park for our family camping weekend. We had 3 sites 146-148 all along the front of the lake in campground 4, with beautiful views, very private. Lots to do on weekends for the kids, large shoreline and feel safe letting the kids ride the roads because little traffic compared to bigger parks. Sites well maintained, big and shaded plus water hookup on electric sites. Friendly staff always out working hard, keeping washrooms very clean. We just loved the park and had a great time will be back in August, wish they were open til Thanksgiving would be great!!!

We'll I don't usually write reviews but I just had to say something about this quaint little provincial park in Selkirk. We wanted to go somewhere not too far and try out our new little camper . We'll first off check in was a breeze. Park staff were all so pleasant and you could tell how proud they were of their little park and how dedicated they were to making our camping experience the best it could be, loved our site so spacious and private. We forgot the hustle and bustle of the city in no time , we hiked the trails and enjoyed the little beach, our kids so enjoyed the crafts they had to do and of course who wouldn't love the store for a ice cream treat and to chat with the wonderfully pleasant staff. It truly is a hidden gem and look forward to visiting the park again.

Selkirk campground was very good. Sites were clean and quite large. Could easily fit 3 tents on the site. They were also staggered nicely and offered good privacy. Bathrooms with unflushable toilets had sinks, soap and mirrors as well as an electrical outlet. They also had comfort stations with flushable toilets and showers. All were very clean.I would have given this campground 5 stars if it were not for the beach. The water was, in my opinion, un-swimmable. It was very, very mossy and weedy. The beach was also small. We chose not to use the beach at all. That said, a short 20 minute drive away was Port Dover. This beach was much less weedy and very usable. Not as nice as Grand Bend, but good enough.

Just returned from Selkirk Provincial Park, Ontario - actually, cut the trip short by half because the park was so incredibly disappointing. We set out hoping to check out a new provincial park, walk some new hiking trails and enjoy a new beach. Unfortunately, none of those nice things happened. Upon entering the park, the driveway area leading up to the check in office was a chaotic mess. An immediate backup formed due to lack of proper space for vehicles to maneuver. Wondering what had caused the backup as we joined the check in line, the reason became immediately apparent; the staff members checking in the guests were the slowest I have ever seen, and we ultimately waited over 30 minutes in line with only 4 campsites ahead of us. Bug bitten before even reaching the front gate, and extremely frustrated with entire initial experience, we headed over to the woodshed to pick up the wettest and most disappointing wood we've picked up in a provincial park yet. Up next, we drove to our campsite to discover, to our dismay, that we were located immediately next to the washroom, a thing which we had deliberately tried to avoid by pouring over the reservation map to ensure we were not in potty county. Tired and already pretty bummed we made the best of it while being totally annoyed by several people playing loud stereos in our supposedly "radio-free" area. Waking up the next morning didn't improve things much; we spent 45 minutes walking the extent of their poorly maintained hiking trails, and then decided to hit the beach. Immediately after clearing the rise of the hill before the beach we were assaulted with a horrifying smell and a foul looking beach. Walking a bit further down, we discovered clouds of sewage-smells algae clogged with garbage and bits of plastic. We found it atrocious to notice that parents were letting their children swim less than 100 meters up the beach from this disgusting sight. After virtually running away from the beach, we also discovered that there is only one shower facility for the entire campsite, buried in the middle of a section we were not staying in. With no shade, no beach, & nowhere else to walk we decided to call it quits and leave before dinner. Home now and relieved we did. TLDR: Selkirk is a horrible camping experience, and you'd be better off camping in a strangers backyard.

My husband and I found selkirk provincial park and only knew what was posted here about it. We have never been there and we were just looking for somewhere comfortable to tent camp. We loved it here. We arrived after park hours but drive in to take a look. A ranger is on duty at all hours even if the camp office is closed. The ranger drove out to us in the park, he was very friendly and helpful. Let us know we could settle I and go to the office in the morning. Our site was spacious and fairly private. A beautiful campground! We rode our bikes around and walked along the lake shore. Everyone we came in contact with the rangers and the other campers were friendly and helpful. We would come back here again :)

We just got back from what was supposed to be a 2 night stay that turned into a week long adventure. This quiet and serene park is just what my husband and I needed to start out the camping season. The sites are spacious and well kept, grassy and shady, everything we look for when camping with our trailer. The washrooms were very clean and the maintenance staff was really friendly. Our grandkids came up for the weekend and we discovered the awesome learn to camp program that the park runs, staff were very welcoming and let our grandkids participate in the session, we learned a lot about what the park offers, we borrowed life jackets and fishing gear to take our grandkids out in the canoe for the first time! At first we were bit disappointed with the shallow rocky beach, but the staff told us the possible endangered species are the reason why they don't rake it, we understand and prefer Ontario Parks to be all natural. Grandkids loved that hey have a store with snacks, ice cream, wood, ice and all the little extras in case you forgot anything.. its just a short walk from the campground. We all got Tshirts to remember our first stay, Madison the student working in the office also let us know that starting Canada Day weekend they run childrens crafts, games and have special guests in on weekends. What a great time we had and have already booked 2 more stays in July & August!!!! We will be back for sure. Suzie & Gord

If you are looking for a great camp site...this is a nice place, the staff is very friendly and its very clean. Although when you get to the beach...turn around and walk back! Too many dead fish and a horrible smell. We went in the water and 5 minutes later something (i have no idea what) cut the bottom of my foot...ended up in the local emergency for the first day of our trip. Other than that, pretty good experience!

This park is small compared to many others I've camped at... but close enough to test out my new pop-up tent trailer.We went this Victoria Day weekend and was warned when we registered that many campsites were flooded or very muddy. Muddy I understand, we just had a few good days of rain in the region... but flooded? A first for me. Thankfully, the site I reserved was not flooded or muddy.We were on site 4, which was an average size. It fit my tiny pop-up trailer and pick-up truck. From what I could tell on my walking tour of the campgrounds, there are only a few that offer nice privacy. Most sites were very close together. 2 of the areas in the campground are geared towards RVs and thus looks very trailer park set-up. One area is geared towards peace with a radio free zone. The toilets are vaulted. (non-flushing) Campground 1 (area 1)'s male toilets smelt very, very, very, very, very, bad. You could smell it from 30 feet away. Incidentally, there are three campsites around it, thankfully they were unoccupied. The sink at the female toilets was non-functioning, there was no garbage bins available at the washrooms. There is only one comfort station in the park, located in Campground 2. A little bit of hike, 5-10 minutes from our site.The water at the site was also not drinkable, they had signs up warning campers. Thankfully we brought two cases, though I was vexed the ontarioparks.com site didn't have an alert about the water. Also thankfully, it was very cool, or we would had to suffer the flying bugs, as camp areas 1 and 3 are right beside a marsh.I was not to pleased with the bundle of firewood, price was cheap enough at $6.50, but it was wet. Weather was not warm, so a fire was a must. Thankfully, the firestarter, selling at a buck, helped. Bonus, was the dog beach. Sadly, it was littered with a lot of debris from the lake.On Sunday night, we were treated to a massive amount of fireworks from the cottagers that live on the other side of the tiny river the park borders. Fireworks are banned from the park, but just outside, those cottagers must have spent a pretty penny and it was a real treat.As well nearly every park I've ever camped at, there are raccoons... put away your food in your car.Overall, the park is alright, staff friendly, sites ok. But if you got a few extra hours, go to Pinery Provincial park, it is 10 times better, 100 times bigger and its only 2-3 hours from Selkirk.

This place is a dump. The "beach" is horrible: smelly with dead fish, lots of seaweed on shore, rocky and unswimmable, and to top it off it has a lovely view of the smokestacks of U.S. Steel at Nanticoke. YCH! But if you just want to enjoy a quiet camping experience, again, the place is a dump. The toilets are incredibly foul smelling. They forbid you bringing in your own wood and then they sell you extremely wet wood which cannot burn until you dry it out for a day near a fire (which you can't do with their wood). The kids running this camp don't care that they sell you wet wood and they just smile and try to sell you some firestarters....which don't work. Practically any other campground in Ontario would be better than this place.

We booked very last minute, my girlfriend and I, and wanted somewhere that wasnt too far of a drive, and was close to a beach.Selkirk fit the bill, it was great! a little escape from our busy lifestyles. The park was nice, clean. We stayed at site #34, which after walking around, seemed to be one of the better sites based on cleanliness, size, and privacy (even though it was only rated an "average"). Our site was all grass, and had plenty of room for our tents and games and such. It was relatively quiet, except for a bunch of teenagers a few sites down, not a whole lot to complain about.The only complaint I would have, would be that the sites are pretty close together. It's a 1 car laneway connecting all the sites in our section, and at any site, you were less than 10 feet across the laneway from another site. I have an SUV so it wasnt difficult blocking out neighbours, but still. The park rangers walked around several times, which was nice. Seeing that they actually abide by the rules and want to ensure everyone is enjoying themselves. We booked a radio free site, and my girlfriend had her iphone playing music, when the ranger came around he told us he apologizes but we can't have any music so we had to turn it off. But, he was very polite and professional about it, so we didn't mind abiding by the rules.All in all, I'd go back definitely, make sure you check out site #34, it was great!!

This is the perfect location for family camp trips...it was actually our second time around:first time was previous yr where we stayed one night, and was amazing time for all. This time around we were there for fathers day trip and it was just as amazing...lots to see and do for the whole family. The sites are clean and far enough from each other; hence, not as noisy as other camp sites ive visited.

I've just returned from what should have been a two night camping trip to Selkirk Provincial Park, Ontario. We only stayed for one night. However, this was in part due to our forgetting to bring the inflatable matress, which made tent-sleeping uncomfortable.SELKIRKSelkirk Provincial Park is a tiny provincial park located on the shores of Lake Erie in Selkirk, Ontario, about 2.5 hours south west of Toronto. Selkirk Provincial Park is east of Port Dover and south of Hagersville.PARK ENTRANCE AND STORESelkirk Provincial Park seems to be surrounded by farmland. At the entrance to the park is registrations and the park store. Check-in to your campsite is after 2PM. Don't forget your confirmation papers. The park staff are friendly and knowledgeable. You can buy a multitude of camping items here such as fire-starter, snacks, wood and kindling. One bag of wood is $6.50 and a bag of kindling is $4.00. We used 2 bags of wood and 1 bag of kindling in one night.Please do not bring your own wood. Ontario Parks is working hard to ensure the containment of invasive species like the The emerald ash borer. Saving a few dollars isn't worth the risk it places on our forests.Once you've signed in, the campsites are not far from the store at all. CAMPSITESWe stayed in Campground 1 at site 21. This site offered excellent privacy and was radio and pet permitting. There was good sun and shade and a picnic table and fire pit. The rest of Campground 1 on the interior loop offered lots of treed space with good privacy for other tent campers, however there were some sites that were extremely exposed.From what I saw of Campground 3 which is radio-free, there was little privacy for campers here. We did not visit Campgrounds 2 or 4. LAKE ERIEIt was really hot and one of the main reasons we booked Selkirk was to swim in the described shallow beach area with warm and welcoming waters. On approach to the beach, I began to smell an intense odour that I thought was coming from the outhouses. Southern Ontario was coping with a heat wave so it was quite plausible that this was the cause. Unfortunately, the smell was coming from the lake. The lake smelled extremely foul, not fishy but like sewage, and the shoreline was encrusted with bright green fuzzy algae. The water was also very murky, topped off with a gigantic dead fish floating in the muck. I grew up next to lakes in the Trent Severn region of north eastern Ontario and am familiar with regular smells and sites of lakes... and everything about this beach said don't go in. This is not based on any facts, only my gut, therefore it may be baseless. Disappointed we returned to camp. During the evening and into the morning, wafts of this unpleasant lake odour would pass through our site.NIGHT TIMEOnce we headed to bed, I believe the park rangers came around at 11pm and asked that all radios be turned off. Other campers were relatively respectful and kept quite. There are raccoons so be sure to put your food into your car.In conclusion, we saw one rabbit and a raccoon. There is Poison Ivy at Selkirk, but not that much. Take some time to familiarize yourself with it so you know what to avoid. There is only one hiking trail that is 2 km - I didn't visit it. Most of the tent campsites were decent and the park staff were very friendly. However the beach situation was a big turn-off. Taking time off work, booking and arranging the whole trip only to find the swimming area like that was really disappointing.Overall, Selkirk is ok, but I don't think I'd go back.