Officials are planning a coordinated crack-down on rowdy revellers at campgrounds over the May long weekend. (CBC)A team of provincial officials will be cracking down on rowdy campers, drunk drivers and speeders over the Victoria Day long weekend.

Several provincial and national campgrounds have temporary liquor bans, and check stops and patrols are being ramped up throughout the province, officials warned.

"If it's part of somebody having a good time, that's great. But if it's part of an illegal act — in other words if you are consuming alcohol in a park where it's prohibited or if you are impaired driving — then those people can expect the full force of the law coming down on them," said RCMP Sgt. Patrick Webb.

Enforcement officials including sheriffs, conservation officers, forest officers and the RCMP are joining forces to patrol every recreation site in the province starting Friday.

The integrated team approach is the best way to keep as many eyes as possible on potential problems on what is traditionally a very busy weekend for law enforcement, Webb said.

For the first time, several front-country campgrounds in Banff National Park will be liquor-free zones for the duration of the long weekend, including Two Jack Lakeside, Lake Louise, Mosquito Creek and three sites at Tunnel Mountain.

And temporary liquor bans are also in place at 10 provincial parks and recreation areas until 6 p.m. Monday.

The ban has been expanded to cover two new locations this year — Ghost Reservoir recreation area near Cochrane and Jarvis Bay Provincial Park near Sylvan Lake.

The other locations covered by the prohibition are:

• Aspen Beach Provincial Park.
• Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park.
• Dillberry Lake Provincial Park.
• Garner Lake Provincial Park.
• Miquelon Lake Provincial Park.
• Pigeon Lake Provincial Park.
• Wabamun Lake Provincial Park.
• Whitney Lakes Povincial Park.

Officials will also be targeting campers responsible for environmental damage over the long weekend, said Cory Wojtowicz, a forest officer with Alberta Sustainable Resource Development.

The Waiparous and McLean Creek areas southwest of Calgary — not covered by the liquor ban since they are public lands — have often been trampled by rowdy campers using off road vehicles on the Victoria Day holiday, Wojtowicz said.

"People make great plans to come out and visit [but] they sometimes forget to bring garbage bags with them and they leave a lot of garbage behind, couches and chairs and anything you can name — even vehicles sometimes," he said.