Campground Description
Rochon Sands Provincial Park, Located on Buffalo Lake, is one of the older provincial parks in Alberta with a wonderfully natural feeling. The park is full of treed sites, picnic tables, and fire pits, and it is very close to the lake. It is the perfect place to make memories with your family and friends! We are open the week of May Long until Thanksgiving Weekend. Reservations the week of May Long to Labour Day Weekend (Sept Long). The provincial park has 78 RV sites, 11 walk-in tenting sites, and 7 large group sites, and 2 smaller group tenting areas. We can accommodate any size of unit in the campground. Most of our sites are UNSERVICED.
Rochon Sands Provincial Park only has non-potable water in the campground. There is a coin and card-operated potable bucket fill station on the east side of HWY 835 as you enter the boundary of the Summer Village of Rochon Sands if you need to fill up when you arrive.
Firewood, ice, beach toys, and some miscellaneous food and camp items are available for sale at the Park Office. Firewood can be purchased in small bundles or large totes. Totes contain about 25 bundles worth of firewood.
This campground allows 2 pets per site, if you are bringing more, please contact the campground directly.
Local Attractions
The Buffalo Lake Area provides swimming, fishing, water sports, disc golf, walking trails, wildlife, bird watching, playground, boat launch, treed sites, free "take-a-book, leave-a-book library.
Campground Amenities
- Firepit (Campsites)
- Firepit (Common)
- Firewood (Charge)
- Garbage Cans and Recycling Bins
- Handicap Accessible
- Parking Lot
- Pet Friendly
- Picnic Shelter
- Picnic Tables
- Powered Sites
- Sani Station
- Tap Water
- Walk-in Sites
Campground Services
- Internet access (WiFi)
Campsite Types
- 15 Amp Hookup
- Big Rig Friendly
- RV (<20 feet)
- RV (<30 feet)
- RV (<40 feet)
- RV (<50 feet)
- RV (<60 feet)
- Tent
Leisure
- Beach
- Bird Watching Station
- Boat Launch
- Boating
- Cycling trails
- Dock
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking and Canoeing
- Playground
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Beautiful Camping and scenic view of Buffalo Lake
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Full payment is required at the time of reservation. Please scroll down to see the Cancellation and Refund Policy.
Campers who are tenting, please note that you must book in a tent site and not an RV site. This is due to the demand for RV sites for RVs, especially in the high season on weekends. RVs cannot fit in tent sites; therefore, tents must be in tent sites. Walk-in means the vehicle is not right on the site but the parking is very close (approximately 30 seconds from the parking spot to the site). Tenters in an RV site may asked to move to a tent site if there are tent sites available. If you have any questions, please make inquiries through the office.
The Summer Village of Rochon Sands has the operating lease at Rochon Sands Provincial Park and follows the Regulations of the Alberta Parks (https://www.albertaparks.ca/media/445808/regulations-brochure-web.pdf) unless noted.
We believe in buying and burning local firewood in our provincial park to help prevent the spread of disease and pests. We strongly urge campers that if they bring their own firewood, it is local to the area. There is firewood available for purchase at the Park Office and the Security Truck in the evenings.
Rochon Sands Provincial Park only has non-potable water in the campground. There is a coin and card-operated potable bucket fill station on the east side of HWY 835 as you enter the boundary of the Summer Village of Rochon Sands if you need to fill up when you arrive.
If a camper would like to launch their boat, there are two boat launches, one in the Provincial Park Day-Use Area, and the other at the Rochon Sands Bay. Boats may not be moored at either boat launch dock, so please remove your boat daily, or anchored along the shoreline for a short period of time.
Campers are welcome to enjoy the playground, picnic area, and beach in the Day-Use Area. Please make sure to pick up after yourself and leave the Day-Use Area in good shape so others can enjoy it too.
Check-in time is 4 pm, check-out time is 1 pm. Early check-in/ late check-out is permitted if it does not affect another guest's stay, but must be cleared with Park Staff. The gates are not closed in the provincial park during the camping season since it is a fire hazard.
Quiet hours are between 11 pm and 7 am. Visitors are encouraged to leave quietly by 11 pm in accordance with quiet hours. Generators are permitted when campers are at their site but must be turned off from 11 pm to 7 am. (exceptions may be allowed for medical reasons, please discuss with Park Staff). Please be courteous to other campers when using your generator.
Please ensure your campsite is cleaned up before you leave (waste bins are located throughout the campground) Please do not leave garbage anywhere in the campsite, or the person registered to the site will be charged a $250 clean-up fee.
Free Wi-Fi is available at the park office. Please ask the Park Office Staff for the password if you wish to use it.
Pets are welcome in the provincial park. All pets must be leashed/contained, cleaned up after, under control at all times, and never left alone at the campsite. Failing to do so may lead to eviction. Pets are permitted at the beach, as long as they are leashed and not bothering others.
If you wish to amend your reservation after you have completed it, there will be a $5 amendment fee for each time you need to make changes.
Cancellation Policy
Refunds are NOT provided for ADVISORIES including weather (rain, wind, snow, temperature), water quality (blue-green algae, non-potable water), air quality, wild animals, insects/pests (mosquitoes, wasps, mice, geese, etc.), fire bans, liquor bans, car trouble, getting lost, or evictions.
For individual camping sites, If you cancel more than 72 hours before 4 p.m. on the scheduled arrival date, you will receive a full refund of all camping fees (for example, if you are scheduled to arrive on Friday, July 8 and you cancel before 4 p.m. on Tuesday, July 5, you will receive a full refund of camping fees). Reservation fees are non-refundable.
- If 72 hours notice is not provided, up to three nights camping fees will be forfeited depending on how much notice is given. Any remaining camping fees will be refunded to the card used for the original transaction.
- 1 night penalty if less than 72 hours but greater than 48 hours notice before 4 p.m. of originally scheduled arrival date
- 2 nights penalty if less than 48 hours but greater than 24 hours notice before 4 p.m. of originally scheduled arrival date
- 3 nights penalty if less than 24 hours notice before 4 p.m. of originally scheduled arrival date
For group sites, AT LEAST 30 days of notice prior to 4 pm check-in time for the date of the reservation, must be given to the park to receive a refund of your camping fees. 30 day to 2 weeks notice the first night is forfeited. Less than 2 weeks the full amount will be subject to a forfeit of ALL camping fees placed on the camping site.
The camper accepts camping privileges with the understanding that he/she/they hereby release the Campground, its officers and employees of all liability for loss or damage to property and injury to his/her/their person arising out of his/her/their use of its camping facilities, and agrees to indemnify the Campground, its officers and employees, against claims resulting from loss or damage to property or injury to the person of any member of the family or guest of the registered camper arising out of the use of its camping facilities.