Sechelt Inlets Marine Provincial Park
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Sechelt Inlets Marine Provincial Park is a
provincial park Ischigualasto Provincial Park A provincial park (or territorial park) is a park administered by one of the provinces of a country, as opposed to a national park. They are similar to state parks in other countries. They are typically open to the ...
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Sechelt Inlet Sechelt Inlet formerly ''Seechelt Inlet'' is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast. The inlet is significant in that it almost makes an island of what is instead the Sechelt Peninsula, whose isthmus is at the town of Sechelt at ...
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Salmon Inlet Salmon Inlet, formerly ''Salmon Arm'', is a 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 ...
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Narrows Inlet Narrows Inlet formerly Narrows Arm is a fjord branching east from Sechelt Inlet in British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountai ...
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Sechelt Sechelt (, Shishalh language chat'lich) is a district municipality located on the lower Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. Approximately 50 km northwest of Vancouver, it is accessible from mainland British Columbia by a 40-minute ferry tr ...
(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 . Individual sites within the park are: *Halfway Beach site, W side Sechelt Inlet *Thornhill Creek site; S side Salmon Inlet *Kunechin Point site, junction of Sechelt and Salmon Inlets, on N side *Tzoonie Narrows site, Narrows Inlet *Piper Point site, W side Sechelt Inlet *Skaiakos Point site, W side Sechelt Inlet


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Mount Richardson Provincial Park Mount Richardson Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located on the lower Sunshine Coast to the north of Sechelt Sechelt (, Shishalh language chat'lich) is a district municipality located on the lower Sunshine ...
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Skookumchuck Narrows Provincial Park Skookumchuck Narrows Provincial Park is a provincial park in the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. It was established on August 25, 1957, to protect the Sechelt Rapids located in the Skookumchuck Narrows Skookumchuck Narrows is a ...
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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 ...


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BC Parks infopage
* Provincial parks of British Columbia Sunshine Coast (British Columbia) Protected areas established in 1980 1980 establishments in British Columbia Marine parks of Canada {{BritishColumbia-park-stub