Bathurst
Camps
in
Mount Carleton Provincial Park
New Brunswick, Canada
This historic property sits between two lakes at the start of the Nipisiguit watershed. The camps have seen much in their 100 year history. Originally used as remote hunting and fishing camps by The Nictau Fish and Game Club, they became the property of the Province of New Brunswick when the area became a Provincial Park in the 1970's.
Carleton Project has used the Bathurst Camps for the last seven summers. For five years previous, Carleton Project participants fulfilled community service work at the camps and helped begin the process that would eventually see them reopened. During 1995 and 1996, the camps were privately operated, along with their "sister" camps on scenic Nictau Lake, at the beginning of the Tobique River watershed. Those interests were purchased and both camps were offered to the public during 1997 and 1998. In 1999, the camps once again became available to interested parties, but for the first time, separate contracts for both properties were offered. The Nictau Camps are presently offering services (accomodations, food) to the public and the Bathurst Camps are now leased by the Carleton Project for its summer youth programs.
There are six cabins, a cookhouse and a bathroom facility. A generator and propane systems support cooking, refrigeration and hot/cold water. The site is very remote, with park headquarters over 10 miles/16km away and no other facilities on surrounding lakes. The nearest towns, St. Quentin to the north and Plaster Rock to the south, are an hour away.
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