How to best tag/distinguish between "hiking only" and "canoeing only" backcountry camp sites?

[JustinBull]

A question on how to best model the rules by the authority in a provincial park.

Algonquin Provincial Park, which is maintained and governed by the Ontario Parks (a branch/agency of the Province of Ontario), requires permits for which camp sites to reside at for the backcountry sections of the park.

The designated camp sites are either for hikers or for canoeing/paddlers, but never both. That is: For a given lake destination/location there are dedicated hiking camp sites (that paddlers cannot use) and dedicated canoeing/paddling camp sites (that hikers cannot use).

Take Brown Lake for example. There is “Brown #1” and “Brown #2” for the 2 bookable hiking camp sites and just “Brown” for the one canoeing site.

Example of a paid map. Red is backpackers/hiker sites, black is canoe/paddling:

Both the reservation system’s map by Ontario Parks and 3rd party maps distinguish between the hiking sites and canoeing sites, and is considered very important to users of the park.

The question is: what’s the best way to model this distinction in OSM?

Obviously, marking both types’ nodes with tourism=camp_site and backcountry=yes fit. I’m tempted to use canoe=yes (or canoe=designated) for the canoeing sites, and canoe=no for the hiking sites, however it seems to be more reserved for ways vs nodes.

[JustinBull]

Also, as a side note:

One curious distinction between hiking and canoeing sites is hiking sites are numbered whereas canoeing sites are a “free for all”, all sharing the same name as the lake. So if Brown Lake had a few canoeing camp sites, they’d all officially be named “Brown”.

Maggie Lake is a small example. Again, from the paid map, there are two canoeing sites on the island available. Both are named “Maggie” and paddlers have reserved the right to “a” canoeing site on Maggie Lake. It’s first come-first-serve to which particular location. Whereas hikers have reserved an explicit numbered site:

[Fizzie-DWG (Graeme Fitzpatrick)]

Easiest way is probably just going to be add a description=Canoeists / Walkers camping only (or similar), & also link to the website, which should say the same.

[campbelltree]

You can certainly start with access=permit on the camp sites, because this is the original definition of that access value.