{"id":671199,"date":"2026-05-15T13:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671199\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:16:10","slug":"campers-flocking-to-parks-for-may-2-4-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671199\/","title":{"rendered":"Campers Flocking to Parks for May 2-4 Long Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jeff-brace-camper.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Campers Flocking to Parks for May 2-4 Long Weekend\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Brace in Pippy Park (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Marking the unofficial start of summer, it\u2019s one of the busiest weekends of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Victoria Day weekend, also known as the 24th of May or May 2-4, is when many flock to parks and campgrounds to enjoy time in the great outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial government say ParksNL processed more than 6,400 reservations on April 22 when the province\u2019s park booking system opened for the season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Tent-Camping-Summer-Stock-Camp-Campsite.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72884 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Tent-Camping-Summer-Stock-Camp-Campsite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right now there are more than 9,400 reservations booked \u2013 a 19 per cent increase over the same period last year when ParksNL processed close to 8,000 reservations.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Brace, who lives in Paradise, says he and his wife have been camping in Pippy Park for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love it here,\u201d Brace tells VOCM News. \u201cWe\u2019ve been coming to this park now 23 years. We were actually the first ones in waiting for the gate to open!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Jeff Brace in Pippy Park (VOCM News) Marking the unofficial start of summer, it\u2019s one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-671199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}