Sechelt Inlets Marine Provincial Park

Sechelt Inlets Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park

Provincial park

A provincial park is a park under the management of a provincial or territorial government in Canada.While provincial parks are not the same as national parks, their workings are very similar...

in British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, Canada

Canada

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, at various locations on Sechelt Inlet

Sechelt Inlet

Sechelt Inlet is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast and the third of such inlets north from the 49th parallel north, the first of which is Burrard Inlet, Vancouver's harbour. The inlet is significant in that it almost makes an island of what is instead the Sechelt Peninsula,...

, Salmon Inlet

Salmon Inlet

Salmon Inlet is an fjord branching east from Sechelt Inlet in the British Columbia, Canada. Its companion, Narrows Inlet, another side-inlet of Sechelt Inlet, lies roughly north. Misery and Sechelt Creeks flow freely into the inlet, while the Clowhom River flows in from the artificial Clowhom...

and Narrows Inlet, near Sechelt

Sechelt, British Columbia

The District Municipality of Sechelt is on the lower Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. Approximately 50 km northwest of Vancouver, Sechelt is accessible to the mainland of British Columbia via a 40 minute ferry trip between Horseshoe Bay and Langdale, and a 25 minute drive from Langdale...

(Salmon Inlet and Narrows Inlet are side arms of Sechelt Inlet). Established initially as a recreation area in 1980, it was converted to a park in 1999, containing approximately 140 ha.

Individual sites within the park are:

Halfway Beach site; W side Sechelt Inlet; 6.4 ha.
Tuwanek Point site; E side Sechelt Inlet; 7.4 ha.
Thornhill Creek site; S side Salmon Inlet; 3.3 ha.
Nine Mile Point site; E side Sechelt Inlet; 6.1 ha.
Kunechin Point site; junction of Sechelt and Salmon Inlets, on N side; 2.3 ha.
Tzoonie Narrows site; Narrows Inlet; 42.6 ha.
Piper Point site; W side Sechelt Inlet; 5.2 ha.
Skaiakos Point site; W side Sechelt Inlet; .4 ha.

See also