HOTELS & MOTELS  • BACKCOUNTRY CABINSLOCAL CAMPGROUNDSBILLETING PROGRAMTENT CITY (INDOOR CAMPING)


DEATH RACE ACCOMMODATIONS:


Hotels and motels in Grande Cache are reasonably priced, clean, and located only a short walk from the start/finish area. Reserve your room EARLY, we anticipate that all commercial hotel space will be full for the entire week leading up to the Death Run. There are also several area campgrounds.

If you are unable to book a room, we are structuring a formal billeting program where you may stay in a room with a Grande Cache family. The cost is $35 for a room per night for a single occupancy and $45 per room per night for a double occupancy. Kitchen facilities are available but fees do not include meals. Kids 8 and under can stay free but must sleep in the same room as the parents. Other options are available including 5th wheel rental, and indoor/outdoor camping, fees vary. The billeting program will only be available once hotel/motel space in town is full. Hotels and motels in Grande Cache are reasonably priced, clean, and located only a short walk from the start/finish area.

HOTELS & MOTELS:

CENTRAL HOTEL RESERVATIONS:
These accommodation providers are Canadian Death Race Sponsors:
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Acorn Motel: 780-827-2412  (e-mail at acorn1@telusplanet.net)

Best Western Grande Mountain Getaways and Hotel:  Phone: 780-827-3303  Toll Free Reservations: 1-866-827-2553
50 Guest Rooms, full amenities.
 

Big Horn Motor Inn: 780-827-3744
34 units, kitchenettes, color cable TV, telephones, laundry facilities, licensed food service, and cocktail lounge.

Grande Cache Hotel: 780-827-3377
48 units, kitchenettes, color cable TV, telephones, non-smoking rooms, executive suites, licensed food service, pub, cocktail lounge, and banquet facilities.

Inn on the Valley: 780-827-2453
48 units, kitchenettes, family suites, color cable TV, telephones, waterbeds, non-smoking rooms, car plug-ins, courtesy coffee, truckers' parking

Misty Mountain Inn and Suites: 780-827-4268
One bedroom suites, non-smoking, fully equipped kitchens, in-room coffee and tea, free use of Misty's gym, car plug-ins, onsite laundry, 24 hour camera security.

Sheep Creek Back Country Cabins: toll free 1.877.945.3786

A new Best Western is currently under construction and is planned to be opening up in mid June. You can call the Grande Cache Tourism Centre and sign up on the list to be registered for a room for the Death Race Long weekend, at 1-866-EXPLORR (397-5677).


LOCAL AREA CAMPGROUNDS

Marv Moore Municipal Campground: DOES NOT ACCEPT RESERVATIONS. 780-827-2404
77 stalls, 55 full service, 22 partial service, dumping station, showers and laundry facilities. .
Full Hook Up $17/night - Partial $15/night - Tents $15/night. All sites have water & power, 55 also have sewage. Free fire wood, grated fire pits, picnic tables, flush toilets, showers, laundry facilities, lit roadways. Treed sites. Hiking trails. Open early May and closes third weekend in October.

North 40 Wilderness Campgrounds: 780-827-6521 TO RESERVE. (Dean Marsters)
Box 1174, Grande Cache, Alberta, T0E 0Y0
Operating 5 sites: Kakwa River, Sheep Creek, Smoky River South, Sulphur Gates, and Southview. Reservations accepted, pets welcome, firewood provided. Open April 1 to October 31, except Smoky River South open year-round.  Free fire wood, grated fire pits, picnic tables, non-flush toilets, well water. Circular loop with spacious, well-treed sites. Fishing, hiking trails.  Seniors discount. Boat Launch.

Pierre Grey Recreation Area/ Big Berland/Mason: RESERVATIONS ACCEPTED.
Box 67, Grande Cache, Alberta, Canada T0E 0Y0
Individual and group camping, grated fire pits, picnic tables, non-flush toilets, well water, free firewood. Fishing, hiking trails.

BILLETING PROGRAM

Match yourself with a host family! To accommodate the multitude of racers we are hosting a billeting  bulletin board program where you may stay with a Grande Cache family. Racers unable to book accommodations should /can find a host family posted on our "Billeting Bulletin Board". Suggested rates are $35/room/night for single occupancy and $45/room/night for double occupancy. Other options are available, including 5th wheel rental and indoor/outdoor camping. Fees vary.

Click here for the Billeting Bulletin Board
check out different places that you can stay, the type of accomodation available and people who are hosting racers.

Racers Click here for Information for Guests (racers/visitors)
find out how the billeting program works, the questions you need to ask and the steps you can take to get registered for the billeting program.

Grande Cache Residents Click here for Information for Hosts
if you'd like to host a few race warriors, this page will asist you on the how and when of the billeting program.l

This will take you directly to the Host Registration Form

This will take you directly to the Reservation Form

For a look at the town Grande Cache Map  


Tent City: Indoor Camping for Death Racers

If you cannot find a place to stay that is warm & dry, and camping is not appealing to you, you may want to check out the indoor camping planned in the local recreation centre.

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