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Bear Creek Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. [3] It is situated on the west side of the Okanagan Lake and is northwest of the city of Kelowna . It was established on April 19, 1981, and was expanded to its current size of 178 hectares (1.78 km 2 ; 440 acres) on May 12, 1988.
Lambly Creek, also known as Bear Creek, is located in the Okanagan region of British Columbia. The creek flows into Okanagan Lake from the west, across from Kelowna . The canyon and mouth of the creek are protected by Bear Creek Provincial Park .
The British Columbia Parks and Protected Areas System is the collection of physical properties owned or administered by BC Parks, an agency of the British Columbia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy. These protected areas are established by order-in-council under one of several different pieces of enabling legislation.
The British Columbia Parks and Protected Areas System is a collection of physical properties managed by BC Parks. The system encompasses 1,035 park units covering an area of about 14.1 million hectares (54,440 mi 2 )—about 14.4% of the entire province—with over 6,000 km (3,700 mi) of hiking trails and approximately 12,700 campsites.
The Okanagan (/ ˌ oʊ k ə ˈ n ɑː ɡ ən / OH-kə-NAH-gən), [3] also called the Okanagan Valley and sometimes the Okanagan Country, is a region in the Canadian province of British Columbia defined by the basin of Okanagan Lake and the Canadian portion of the Okanagan River.
Kelowna is the seat of the Regional District of the Central Okanagan, the third-largest metropolitan area in British Columbia after Vancouver and Victoria and the largest in the British Columbia Interior. With scenic lake vistas and a dry, mild climate, Kelowna has become one of the fastest-growing cities in North America.
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Glacier National Park is part of a system of 43 parks and park reserves across Canada, and one of seven national parks in British Columbia.Established in 1886, the park encompasses 1,349 km 2 (521 sq mi), and includes a portion of the Selkirk Mountains, which are part of the larger grouping of mountains, the Columbia Mountains.