Riverbend Campground

The Autism Aspergers Friendship Society of Calgary are grateful to the folks at Riverbend for their support of our Outdoor Pursuits and Camping Programs. We came out twice this Summer (2017) and plan to expand that next season. Our members love coming and are provided with amazing opportunities to camp, explore and just be kids. Thanks Riverbend. You've made some great friends and great memories. Scott Godfrey - Program Coordinator

Stayed here for a month in May.
PROS: Clean bathrooms, showers, and laundry room. Many small playgrounds. Local campers generally keep to themselves. Quiet during the week. Good price for the area. Away from major roads. Security keeps rowdy intoxicated people in check. Some large lots. Most RV sites can handle heavy rain. Large firepits.
CONS: Lacking on grass area in sites. Weekends before 12am can get loud. Dogs running loose and using other people's lots as bathrooms or going through food. Last few days went half of each day without water in entire camp. Many local campers lots are an eyesore. Like any campsite, a large amount of intoxicated people daily, and the smell of marijuana is potent.

Terrible campsite especially for what the rates are. Packed in like sardines (can hear the neighbors breathing and F-bombing), very trashy campground with poor quality facilities and dusty (can only imagine how muddy if rained). Asked for quiet campsite away and assured that no one else was camping near us - entire row was packed and I mean packed. Couldn't get hold of office after 7pm - no answer on phone either (hope no emergencies after that time). Transient camping with people living month to month. Not appropriate for kids.

Sea of Mud as very limited gravel at site. Had rained earlier when we arrived. Ended up standing in oozing muck while I hooked up the connections. Reversing the procedure the next morning, the water hose, sewer hose and electric cable all covered in mud all of which went into the bays. Brought a bunch of mud into the RV as well on my shoes. Paid $150 for 3 nights. We use the RV for sight seeing and I never went back for the 3rd night as it was raining hard and I just didn't want a repeat of this ridiculous situation.

We found our site really nice for tenting for 2 days, some sites aren't as nice and you may end up on rocks to set up your tent and no grill for the fire pit. Loved how close it was to the city and everyone was super nice, friendly and helpful. It didn't seem like there was any quiet time and everyone stayed pretty loud pretty late but I enjoyed our stay overall. Will definitely go back just hoping to get a spot a little further from permanent trailer with loud music and such!

Love it here...don't hate it..new at this posting thing... Everyone so friendly.. Love having a camp fire..

Although it was fairly quiet when we arrived, it was nothing like a campground. Not private at all. Its more like a trailer park. Permanent campers across from you; stuff everywhere. Nothing is up kept for the amount they ask. ($40-some) The playgrounds were full of spider-webs and make-shift mickey mouse equipment, broken steps. It looked trashy. We stayed right by the river but there was garbage by the river that we ended up picking up. When we asked if we could dump our sewer they wanted additional money... & when it was 10:45, 15 minutes until sign out time some guy on his tractor started cutting grass literally right beside us, spewing rocks at our trailer and trying to get us out on time. I was in the middle of feeding our baby so we were not leaving at 10:45. And there was NO other campers in sight, everything was open so what was the rush? And There was no grass to cut; just rocks. He never cut around any of the other empty 9 stalls just kept circling around ours like 3 times. He'd cut rocks around us; all around, leave and then come back & do it again. I was fuming at how the reviews don't match up with what is offered. It was really rude to treat us like that.