On June 16, BC Parks unveiled the first playground with universally accessible features in Northern B.C. at Purden Lake Provincial Park. To celebrate, kids and adults were invited to come explore, …
BC Parks has a long and storied history: the first provincial park (Strathcona) was officially designated a park in 1911, and since then this number has grown to over 1,000 …
BC Parks is excited to be partnering once again with the Vancouver Aquarium as a conservation supporter of the WWF’s Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup! Since 1994, over 700,000 participants from …
$240,000 is now available for BC Parks community engagement projects taking place in 2017/18. Each of BC Parks’ five regions have been allocated $20,000 to support conservation projects, and $20,000 to …
BC Parks guest blog post by Dudley Coulter, North Okanagan Cycling Society Not much of a ‘shoulder season’ in Vernon provides ample opportunity for trail development… There are early signs …
2016 was BC Parks’ fifth year partnering to support the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup as a Conservation Supporter. We are happy to report that it was a successful year with …
Guest Blog Post: BC Marine Trails Network Association There are some really remote marine parks within the BC Parks system that are not visited regularly simply because they are hard …
Story submitted by BC Parks Area Supervisor Rob Wilson It was an amazing day at Cultus Lake involving 7 volunteer divers and myself as the BC Parks representative. Divers were …
Written by: Kelsey Singbeil, Surfrider Vancouver Island Volunteer The boat lands with a thud on the sand. It’s time to start unloading. Four of us stay on the boat and …
Want to hear about some of the volunteer activities going on in BC Parks? Check out the West Okanagan Volunteer Newsletter (June 2015) to see some of our volunteer projects, accomplishments, upcoming …