Craigleith Provincial Park: What to Know Before You Book

If you're trying to decide which campground to book at Craigleith Provincial Park, there's nothing to decide: our data shows exactly one campground here, with roughly 172 sites — a number that lines up almost exactly with the park's total site count. The real planning question for Craigleith isn't "which campground" but what to check on the official map before you lock in a specific site, and whether this stretch of Georgian Bay shoreline is the right base for your trip.

Here's what we can confirm, what we can't, and where to look for the rest.

What our data confirms

Craigleith Provincial Park sits at 209333 Highway 26 in the Town of Blue Mountains, right on the Georgian Bay shoreline a short drive from Collingwood. The park lists about 172 total sites, and the single campground on our park page accounts for essentially all of them — unlike parks where the campground total runs well under the park's overall site count, there's no unexplained gap to flag here.

The park's draw is its location more than a long list of amenities: it's a beach-and-shoreline park within easy reach of Collingwood and the Blue Mountain resort area, which makes it a useful stop whether you're camping for the water or using it as a base for a few days in the area. Confirm current beach conditions, trail access, and any seasonal programming directly on the official park page before you go, since those details change through the season and we don't track them here.

Craigleith: what to check before you book

With one campground to choose from, the planning shifts from "which campground" to "which site, and does this park fit the trip I'm planning." A few things worth doing before your booking window opens:

• Use the reservation map's filters. Electrical vs. non-electrical, pull-through vs. back-in, distance to the comfort station — none of that is in our data, and the official booking map shows it site by site.
• Check the satellite view for proximity to the shoreline and the highway. Our guide to reading a campsite before you book walks through what to look for on the map: tree cover, privacy, and how close a site sits to Highway 26 running along the park's edge.
• Decide how much "close to Collingwood" matters for your trip. Being a short drive from a resort town and a ski-and-beach destination is a feature if you want groceries, restaurants, or a day trip nearby, but it also means less of a remote-wilderness feel than parks further from any town. If you're weighing other Georgian Bay options, our Awenda campground guide covers a park further up the same bay with a similar shoreline draw.

When to book

Ontario Parks releases reservations five months ahead of your arrival date, at 7 a.m. Eastern, on reservations.ontarioparks.ca. Our reservation dates guide has the day-by-day schedule for 2027's long weekends, and our 7 a.m. booking playbook covers what to have ready before the window opens. Craigleith's location near Collingwood and Blue Mountain cuts both ways: it's an easy park to reach for a weekend, but that same convenience means a lot of other people are trying to book the same roughly 172 sites for the same summer dates. Don't assume a park this close to a resort town will have leftover availability closer to your trip.

If your weekend does sell out, it isn't necessarily final. Our guide to landing a cancelled site covers setting a Notify Me alert and timing your checks around the cancellation deadline, and that approach works just as well at a single-campground park as at a bigger one.

If Craigleith doesn't have what you need

If your trip depends on something the single campground doesn't offer — shore power for a trailer, a second option on different water, or roofed accommodation — it's worth knowing before you book rather than after. We don't have yurts or cabins confirmed at Craigleith; our yurt camping guide covers which parks we can confirm those at and points you to the Ontario Parks roofed-accommodation search to check directly. For a nearby alternative on the same bay with its own single-campground setup, Awenda is worth comparing if Craigleith doesn't line up with your dates.

The bottom line

Craigleith keeps the campground decision simple: it's one campground, full stop, and the park's roughly 172 sites essentially are the campground. What's worth your time instead is confirming electrical availability and site privacy on the official reservation map, deciding whether a shoreline park this close to Collingwood fits the kind of trip you want, and booking early if your dates line up with a summer weekend — proximity to a resort town makes this one go fast, not slow.

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Questions

Does Craigleith Provincial Park have more than one campground?

No. Our data shows one campground, matching the park's total of roughly 172 sites, so there's no campground-to-campground comparison to make here.

Is Craigleith close to Collingwood and Blue Mountain?

Yes. The park sits on Highway 26 in the Town of Blue Mountains, a short drive from Collingwood and the Blue Mountain resort area, which makes it a convenient base for a Georgian Bay shoreline trip.

Are there electrical sites at Craigleith?

We don't have that split confirmed in our data. Use the electrical filter on the Ontario Parks reservation map before you book so you can see exactly which sites have power.

Does being close to Collingwood make Craigleith harder to book?

It can. A park this close to a resort town and a Georgian Bay beach tends to see steady summer weekend demand, so book as soon as the reservation window opens if your dates matter.