Lake Louise in Banff National Park has two campgrounds, one for tents and one for hard sided trailers and motorhomes. The tent campsites are surrounded by an electrified fence that is intended to keep the bears out. The hard sided campers fend for themselves as these plastic and fibreglass covered aluminium and wood framed fortresses can withstand a hungry bear.
The trailer campsites have double wide parking pads to accommodate two trailers, each facing the opposite direction and come with electrical hook up only. The camp ground is well treed, rests along the Bow River on one side and a very active train track on the other. There is a grassed area that sits beside the entry doors of the trailers that is quite wide. That is because your door opens up and faces your neighbour. Not much privacy at this campground, which is fine. If you take advantage of the lake and trails you won’t be around your trailer. If you like sitting then that works cause your neighbour is likely out and about.
We arrived at the park on our first day at around 11am to be greeted by National Parks staff directing traffic at every intersection. The first guy was stuck on waving in one direction only and answered my question of “Which way to the Lake Louise trailer park?” with more waving and a shout “Straight up the hill”. So up we went, missing the sign that the waver ignored that told us that towing trailers up the hill is not recommended. We got to the top in first gear, 3500 RPM, 28 km/hr and were met by more arm waving Park’s staff that did an excellent job of keeping the traffic moving. Toronto could use some of these guys and girls. From our seats we saw that this route was the way to the Lake Louise parking lot not camp ground. I’ll wear that one. We saw the signs that pointed to Lake Louise, the Chateau, Lake Moraine, and trails all of which we intend on seeing. We decided that if wanted to check these sites out we would have to start early in the morning.
I called out to a Park’s staff asking where the hard sided campground was and his directions took me back down the hill, in a racing second gear, back to the first traffic waver. But he was gone, replaced by a young woman who pointed us in the correct direction. This is way guys don’t ask guy for direction. Some have warped senses of humour. Once set up with our newly fixed trailer, and cramped fingers from finger-crossing, we walked around the campground to check it out.
The Bow River was high and flowing fast. The river side trail was closed due to the high water. The firewood (free in National Parks) was just down the road and we had some at our fire pit. After our walk I started a fire while dinner was started. Then it rained, just a little, then stopped, then it rained a little longer, than it stopped, then it… you get the idea. Then I got out the umbrellas and it rained more, with wind, and more rain, and we gave up and went inside. 
Jennifer had dinner ready and we ate it, looking out the window watching our fire mock us. Thankfully the rain continued and put an end to that. Later we found out that while the firewood is free the daily fire permit is $8.80. Since the next day we planned on kayaking Lake Louise and hike the trail towards the Tea House we got our gear set up and ready, made a lunch, and set the coffee maker for 6am. To read more click here.