DCHP-2

unserviced DCHP-2 (June 2016)

• adj. — especially Outdoors

  without access to electricity or other utilities, often in reference to a campsite.

  Type: 5. Frequency — Unserviced is currently most frequent in Canada with respect to camping (see Chart 1). US sources using the term with reference to camping are generally referring to Canadian destinations (see, e.g., the 1969 quotation from The New York Times in an article about Banff, AB).
  See also COD-2, s.v. "unserviced", which is marked "Cdn".

  See also: serviced  

  • 1969  [Camping charges in national parks range from $1 a night for an unserviced site to $1.50 for one with electricity and $2 for one with water, electricity and sewer connections. Provincial park charges are similar but vary with the province.] 
  • 1978  Daily camping rates are $3 for an unserviced site, $5 with electricity, $6 with electricity, sewer and water. 
  • 1984  If you camp out, you will pay $3 a day for an unserviced site on one of the parks' public campgrounds. Once on the trail, however, your nightly patch of ground is free. 
  • 1988  Reservations for the limited access, unserviced beats on the downstream sectors of the St. Jean and Ste. Anne, as well as the Patapedia canoe run, are scheduled to take place on Feb. 22. 
  • 1999  As vehicles streamed in, processed through orderly lanes, co-producer Glen Vinet predicted that about 4,500 RVs would set up on the unserviced, nearly treeless site -- which he believes ranks as the largest campground in the province, with 7,000 spots. 
  • 1999  This year B.C. Parks enacted an $8 fee for unserviced provincial campsites which were formerly free. 
  • 2008  Unserviced sites will rise from $20 to $23 per night. The serviced sites will also have potable water. 
  • 2016  The daily fee for camping on an unserviced site at Mactaquac is increasing to $28 from $25.