The Islands Provincial Park
October 2026
About
Just across the harbour from the historic town of Shelburne, The Islands Provincial Park offers a restful stop on your trip around the South Shore. Bounded by Shelburne Harbour, it offers visitors a maritime camping experience. The areas many museums, shops, and picturesque charm continue to attract thousands of international visitors each year. The park offers a 64-site campground (55 Wooded; 9 Partially Wooded), all gender/family comfort station (individual entrance accessible showers and flush toilets), dishwashing station, picnic areas, an unsupervised beach, and boat launch. Although there are no serviced sites, water taps, and vault toilets are conveniently located throughout the campground. Located on Nova Scotia's South Shore, on the west side of Shelburne Harbour, 2 km (1.2 mi) south of Exit 26 from Highway 103.
Phone: 902-875-4304
Is The Islands Provincial Park fully booked?
A campground showing no availability is almost never full for good. People cancel — plans change, weather turns, someone books three weekends and keeps one — and the site goes straight back into the booking system, usually without warning and often at odd hours. The reason sold-out campgrounds feel impossible is not that sites never free up; it is that nobody is watching at the moment they do.
CampHawk watches The Islands Provincial Park in Shelburne, NS for you. We recheck it every 15 seconds, around the clock, and the moment a site opens we send a text, an email and a push notification, with a link straight to the booking page.
Searching is free and needs no account — the calendar above is live right now. Watching The Islands Provincial Park for cancellations is the paid part.