Okeover Arm Provincial Park — Attraction in Area A (Malaspina/Toba)

This year we went to the campground on July 30, 2021. Our family and friends shared 3 campsites. On the morning of July 31, 2021 while we were eating breakfast, a ranger J. McGuirness came up to our campsite and gave us 3 violation tickets for the act of Section 8(2).

*Disturbance prohibited 8 (1)A person must not create or cause a deliberate or unnecessary disturbance in a park, conservancy or recreation area.

(2)Except as authorized by a park officer, a person must not, between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. the following day, operate or permit another person to operate any device that produces sound at a level which disturbs the peace and quiet of

(a)an occupant of another campsite, or

(b)persons in the park, conservancy or recreation area.

*Then, the ranger gave us an eviction notice and told us "If you don't leave in 2 hours, we will call the RCMP."

Firstly, the music was turned completely off when our neighbor asked us to turn it down at 9:48 pm to be exact. Our talking and laughter was kept to a minimum, and to be honest, the neighbor's snoring was much louder than our talking. Secondly, NO WARNING AT ALL was ever given to any of us about noise or anything that night or the morning after. From my experience, the other campsites I've been to have had rangers come up to the campsite to give warnings if we were too loud past quiet time. Thirdly, they didn't even ask us if we were loud or if we had music on or what were doing and at what time. They never questioned whatever was told to them from neighbors or whoever reported something. The ranger just walked away after saying this line "You have 2 hours to leave or we'll call the RCMP. Have a good day."

How insane is that?! How do you not get frustrated at that after travelling an entire day from Vancouver to Powell River? We are respectful human beings with common sense. If someone asks us to turn the music down, we'll turn it down. If we are given a warning about noise, we would listen..OBVIOUSLY!! We travelled over 5 hours just to get to that campsite, why would we set up ourselves to get evicted?!

I ask Okeover to please go over your procedures and campground policies with your rangers. This just doesn't seem fair that no warnings were given and no communication was delivered to us at all. We were accused and evicted, never ever listened to...

We've been going to this park for at least a dozen years. We didn't go in 2013 as we took the Inside Passage trip in its place. Very hard choice.

The small park is on the salt water, and rocky beach with evergreen forest all the way to the water. A spectacular setting looking up the inlet. This park is first come, first served and not often full. We love the forest birds, like the swainson's thrush - a wonderful song. The ravens calls entertain us. A 5-minute walk to the Laughing Oyster restaurant for a relaxing lunch on their deck is wonderful, and sometimes live music drifts into the campground - we like it, but some might not.

The Sliammon tribe were the hosts up till this year - not sure what happened, and who is doing it now (2013). Last year, a number of the tables needed work or replacement. They also used to sell firewood, but quit that in 2012. What with all the forests around, it was surprising that firewood sold in Lund, and at SunLund was so expensive for what was offered. We will probably take a propane fire pit in the future in case of no wood.

We will be quite interested in staying there in July, 2014 and hope all is well. It is a great setting.

There are two pit toilets in the CG, and another one in the woods above the government dock - handy if in site 13 and 14.

There are few choices of camping around Lund. SunLund in Lund has hookups for RVs and showers; Dinner Rock is just before the turnoff to Okeover PP, but we never liked that (hilly, exposed to winds, and just felt it a little weird though we haven't...

This campground isn't bad, but it's noisy and crowded. It draws a lot of day use vehicles for Clamming on the beach and other boat related activities. This creates a lot of vehicle and people noise as they set up and take down every day. The campsites are also unusually close together for a BC parks site. This makes the noise worse and reduces that feeling of privacy. I'll take the trade for a beach front site but none of these sites are beach front. They are 'beach near'. The whole place is also very narrow with low hanging branches and a moderately challenging drive to access.

There are nice things about it, such as the feeling of remoteness and the ocean air. The views from the beach are great as well. The cell signal is functional for most needs.

Just come here in the shoulder season when it's less crowded unless your heart is set on joining the crowds to clam or boat. It could be fairly serene without all that, but with it, the place is more trouble...