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Stamp River Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada.The 327-hectare park is located 14 km north of Port Alberni on Vancouver Island. [1] There are 23 camping spaces and 2 km of trails within the park along the Stamp River, named for Edward Stamp, a sawmill pioneer in the Alberni Valley.
Port Alberni (/ æ l ˈ b ɜːr n i /) is a city located on Vancouver Island in the province of British Columbia, Canada. The city lies within the Alberni Valley at the head of the Alberni Inlet, Vancouver Island's longest inlet. Port Alberni currently has a total population of 18,259.
MacMillan Provincial Park is a 301-hectare (740-acre) provincial park in British Columbia, Canada.Located 25 km (16 mi) west of Qualicum Beach and 16 km (9.9 mi) east of Port Alberni, the park straddles Highway 4 and the Island Rail Corridor in central Vancouver Island.
In 1959, the provincial government opened both the Wickaninnish Beach Provincial Park (which was expanded in 1961 and 1968) and Highway 4, from Tofino to Port Alberni. The highway resulted in thousands of new visitors descending on the beaches each year throughout the 1960s, including for international surfing competitions from 1966 to 1968.
Port Wentworth received a $1.26 million grant to provide energy to the new Anchor Park Development, which will hold the Ghost Pirates Training Facility.
BC Parks Little Qualicum Falls Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia , Canada , on central Vancouver Island , that encompasses the entire southern shore of Cameron Lake . The Island Rail Corridor line to Port Alberni passes through the park.
Access is by an unmaintained trail from Nitinat Road. The nearest communities are Port Alberni, Lake Cowichan, and Port Renfrew. [3] The park is divided into two parcels about 9 kilometres apart along the course of Nitinat River. The western most portion is called Bridge Pool and is accessed from the bridge that crosses the Nitinat River.
Although certainly known to the Qualicum First Nation, the first reference to caves at Horne Lake is in a geological report from 1912. [1] Two caves known as Main and Lower Main were thereafter known to loggers, and public visitation increased after they were publicised in 1939.