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Fossli Provincial Park is a
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in
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, Canada, located on Stirling Arm of
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on
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. The 52-hectare park, west of
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, is accessible by water or private logging road. It has few services, but has a 30-minute hiking trail to an old homestead site. The homestead belonged to Helen and Armour Ford, who donated the land for the park to the province in 1974. Saint Andrew's Creek runs through the park, and is a fall spawning ground for
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.


Name origin

The name of the park derives from local names conferred by an early Norwegian Canadian immigrant after his home village in the Eidfjord region of
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. The name means "waterfall in the valley".


Gallery

File:Sign for Fossli Trail.jpg, sign for Fossli Trail rises above a salal bush File:Footbridge in Fossli Park.jpg, Footbridge on trail File:Big broadleaf maple in Fossli Park covered in moss.jpg, Giant bigleaf maple covered in moss File:Alders in Fossli Provincial Park.jpg, Moss-covered alders rise from a floor of
sword fern Sword fern is a common name for several ferns and may refer to: *''Nephrolepis'', a tropical genus of ferns, especially: **''Nephrolepis exaltata'', commonly cultivated as a houseplant, including the Boston fern *''Polystichum'', a cosmopolitan gen ...
File:Banana slug in Fossli Provincial Park.jpg, Banana slug along the trail on wet day File:Low flow (9480150302).jpg, waterfall on the creek in the park


See also

*
List of British Columbia Provincial Parks 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 e ...


References


External links

*BC Parks
Fossli Provincial Park
Provincial parks of British Columbia Alberni Valley 1974 establishments in British Columbia Protected areas established in 1974 {{BritishColumbia-park-stub