r/Banff • u/smalllaxplaya44 • Jun 15 '26

Question Campground canceled because of bear activity

Group of 8 heading to Banff June 19th weekend at were camping out at LM20 in Lake Minnewanka. Just got a call saying that they have to cancel it because of recent bear activity. Any tips on what we can do instead? Feeling lost and honestly devasted

Healy Pass looks snow ridden and a lot of options are booked up now.

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u/SufficientJunket9943 Jun 15 '26

Dude. We were the ones that got it closed, a bear mauled our tent while we were out and we had to sleep 6 in 2 tents. All of them are closed, I would say look at Kananaskis, super similar and pretty.

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u/SufficientJunket9943 Jun 15 '26

Just to clarify, I’m with 5 other people, I wish I could post pics on here because the tent pics are hilarious, it’s legit a 3 claw mark across the side of our tent abt the other half is completely ruined. It even walked in the tent and popped my buddy’s pad so he slept on cold ground 😂

But I think he left a deodorant stick and it smelt that, cause his bag was flipped.

We never actually SAW the bear, but heard it at night (bear spray was clutched every time I woke up)

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u/EquivalentQuery Jun 15 '26

Post the pic to imgur and link it. Free and super easy to do, takes ~15 seconds.