If there's one thing you want to do this year, it's grab your friends together, pack your bags, get in the car, and venture off to one - or four - of these stunning parks.
Whether you're the type of person who has a thirst for adventure and wants to gear-up for a weekend of immersing yourself in the wilderness, or the type of person who just wants to take it easy, relax and boost your Instagram game, each of these ten parks will have something to offer you.
Located between Ucluelet and Tofino, the Pacific Rim National Park offers adventurers with a little bit of everything: from sandy beaches to stunning nature trails.
Located approximately 160 km southwest of Williams Lake and in a relatively isolated part of the Chilcotin, Ts’ilʔos Provincial Park is a hikers paradise, exhibiting rugged mountains, sky blue lakes, glaciers and waterfalls, as well as offering the opportunity for short day hikes and wilderness backpacking trips.
Found approximately 90 km southwest of Fort Nelson, the Northern Rocky Mountains Provincial Park boasts being the third largest provincial park in BC. The park offers a vast variety of visual and recreational features, including wildlife viewing, boating, hunting, adventure tourism, camping, horseback riding and nature photography.
Sitting in east-central British Columbia, Wells Gray Provincial Park has it all. Exhibiting a number of volcanoes, waterfalls, mineral springs and glaciers, the park offers hikers an array of beautiful views of lush meadows and wildlife, as well opportunities to kayak, fish and venture off with nothing but a backpack and a compass.
Located just north of Pemberton among jagged peaks, ice fields, rushing streams and turquoise blue lakes, Joffre Lakes Provincial Park offers hikers with some of the most stunning trails and camping spots in B.C.
located on the southwestern coastal terrain of Vancouver Island and home to some of the world's largest spruce trees, Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park is a forested sanctuary that offers visitors with many hiking and photography opportunities.
Located in the northwestern region of British Columbia, Spatsizi Plateau Provincial Park is Canada's second largest park. Best known for exhibiting outstanding scenery, varied terrain and wilderness, Spatsizi Plateau presents adventurers with well-marked hiking routes, cabins to stay in on a first-come-first-serve basis, and opportunities to fish and paddle.
The second oldest park in British Columbia'spark system and bordering Jasper National Park in Alberta, Mount Robson Provincial Park is home to the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. The park offers the opportunity to go mountain biking, fishing, canoeing, rafting, rock climbing and even take helicopter tours,
Located west of the British Columbia-Alberta border and 48 km southwest of Banff, Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park presents visitors with shimmering lakes, sky scraping peaks and far-stretching meadows. The main activities offered include camping, hiking, mountain climbing and viewing the beautiful mountain scenery.
Located 16 km northwest of Victoria on southern Vancouver Island, Goldstream Provincial Park is nothing short of a naturalist paradise. Immersed among towering trees, majestic waterfalls and a stunning array of flowers, birds and fish, hikers can escape from the city life and venture off into the woods to truly indulge in nature - whether through trekking along one of many trails or simply sitting back and taking it all in.
Which Parks are you going to visit? Do you have any memorable stories of visiting one of these parks in the past? Let us know in the comment section!
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