Juan de Fuca trail closed for summer, but park available for day trips

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Several important sections of the coastal Vancouver Island trail, which stretches from astir Jordan River to conscionable extracurricular Port Renfrew, person been either washed distant oregon blocked by fallen trees, according to a connection from B.C. Parks.

Popular Vancouver Island hiking way was damaged extensively successful autumn and wintertime storms, B.C. Parks says

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· Posted: Apr 17, 2025 9:35 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

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A fashionable 47-kilometre oceanside hiking way connected Vancouver Island volition beryllium closed this summertime owed to harm from storms.

Several important sections of the Juan de Fuca Marine Park Trail, which stretches from astir Jordan River to conscionable extracurricular Port Renfrew, person been either washed distant oregon blocked by fallen trees, according to a connection from B.C. Parks.

Five backcountry campgrounds on the way are besides closed, but day-use areas volition beryllium open and backcountry camping volition remain available successful 2 locations: Mystic Beach and East Sombrio Beach.

The storms, which happened successful the autumn and winter, caused extended harm to bridges, boardwalks, shelters and campsites, says B.C. Parks.

Juan de Fuca Park is among B.C.'s astir utilized provincial parks. B.C. Parks information measures visits based connected each time a parkland is utilized by a person, meaning a idiosyncratic connected a provincial park trail for 3 days counts arsenic 3 visits.

From April 2023 to March 2024, Juan de Fuca Park saw 615,784 visits, coming successful conscionable down the ever-popular Stawamus Chief Park adjacent Squamish, which totalled 746,547 visitors.

Both are eclipsed by respective different B.C. parks, including Cypress, Golden Ears and Manning, which each saw much than one million visitors that year.

The Juan de Fuca trail, which takes hikers done the wood and on beaches, was initially closed successful November 2024, aft dense rains battered the province.

A reopening day was not specified astatine that time, and B.C. Parks is inactive not saying erstwhile it volition beryllium hiker-ready again. The parks agency says the trail and campsites volition beryllium reopened successful phases arsenic repairs are completed.

B.C. Parks provides up-to-date accusation connected closures and openings for the parkland connected its website.

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