MacMillan Provincial Park
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MacMillan Provincial Park is a 301-hectare provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. Located 25 km west of Qualicum Beach and 16 km east of Port Alberni, the park straddles Highway 4 and the Island Rail Corridor in central Vancouver Island.
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MacMillan Provincial Park is a 301-hectare provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. Located 25 km west of Qualicum Beach and 16 km east of Port Alberni, the park straddles Highway 4 and the Island Rail Corridor in central Vancouver Island.
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Have you seen trees this big before!? 🌲The coastal temperate rainforest found in coastal British Columbia is home to lush forests with massive trees growing taller than buildings. Western redcedar can grow up to about 70 metres (230ft) tall and 7 metres (23ft) in diameter. Douglas-fir trees reach up to 100m (330ft) tall and 5 metres (16ft) in diameter!! 🤩 Cathedral Grove is a beautiful place to experience the magic of enormous trees and lush evergreen flora, found in MacMillan Provincial Park. This park has beautiful accessible trails, providing inclusive outdoor spaces. Parks provide protection for natural spaces, such as this old growth forest, from habitat destruction and development. These forests are ecologically and culturally significant and provide habitat for wildlife, species diversity, carbon storage, nutrient cycling, and so much more! #vancouverisland #temperaterainforest #explorebc #naturalist #naturenerd #naturewalk #bigtrees #forestwalk #oldgrowth
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2023 adventures in beautiful British Columbia✨ This year was full of spontaneous adventures - exploring provincial and national parks, chasing waterfalls, conquering tough hikes, savoring long road trips, and dancing through flower fields. It’s not just about the places; these were the moments that stitched us together and painted our journey with shared emotions.🤍 Places highlighted in the reel: 📍Buntzen Lake 📍Macmillan Provincial Park 📍Quarry Rock 📍 @lakelandflowers 📍Stawamus Chief 📍Alta Lake 📍 @tuscanfarmgardens 📍Brandywine Falls Provincial Park 📍Abbotsford, BC 📍Yoho National Park 📍Golden, BC 📍Parkhurst 📍E.C. Manning Provincial Park 📍 @thebutchartgardens 📍Salt Spring Island 📍 @glowlangley 📍Whistler, BC Vancouver - British Columbia - Canada - Travel destinations - Beautiful destinations - Places to visit - Where to go - Things to do - 2023 Recap - Explore BC
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What makes a temperate rainforest, a temperate rainforest: 🌧️ the forest must have annual precipitation of at least 140 cm (55 inches) 🌡️ average annual temperatures must range between 4-12 degrees Celsius (39-54 degrees Fahrenheit) Temperate rainforests contain coniferous trees (evergreens), such as massive western red cedars, and deciduous trees (which loose their leaves) like big leaf maple trees. Although temperate rainforests are less biodiverse than tropical rainforests, they are tremendously important as they host the largest and oldest organisms in the world, have tons of biomass, and sequester carbon from the atmosphere (help us combat climate change). 💚Where can you find temperate rainforests? Temperate rainforests cover less than 10% of the earth and are found temperate rainforests and exist at latitudes between the two Tropics and Polar Circles. They can be found in the northern and southern hemispheres! You can find them in the USA, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, Iran, Great Britain, Ireland, northern Spain, southern Chile, New Zealand, and Australia. The temperate rainforest featured in this video is on Vancouver Island, British Columbia in MacMillan Provincial Park on a fully accessible boardwalk trail amongst giant western red cedar trees and Douglas-fir trees. 🌲 #temperaterainforest #bigtree #forestwalks #rainforest #vancouverisland #forestmagic
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If you come from a big city, you'll be amazed to see untouched forest with 800 year old trees. I hope this place will never change. The massive sizes of these trees speak untold stories about all the years of history that they have lived through. Some are at least 3 to 4 meters in diameter and taller than many downtown buildings. Great for photos with your kids and best to bring the wide angle lenses as they convey the size of these ginormous trees. Easily accessible by stroller and wheelchairs and the trail is a big loop perhaps a km long. It is also nostalgic to know that Star Wars was once filmed here (Ewoks). Remember to bring mosquito repellent. You don't want to rush your visit because you were running away from mosquitos.
Nicky LeeNicky Lee
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If you are visiting Vancouver Island you should stop in MacMillan Park (Cathedral Grove) on the Port Alberni Highway. This is one of the last places to easily access old growth Vancouver Island forest. The signage is informative but worn and could use maintenance (Most BC Provincial parks have suffered from underfunded from successive governments leaving most in different states of disrepair). The park exists on both sides of the highway and has limited parking that requires a dangerous highway crossing to visit all of the park. There are no fees to visit or park a vehicle at the park. There is no overnight camping. I would highly recommend a stop here even if it’s slightly out of you way.
Greg HowardGreg Howard
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Such a gorgeous and easy hike through ancient forests. There aren't many other easily-accessible places in the world where you can see and inspect 800-year-old conifers. But here you get to reconnect with nature (even if only for a little bit), breathe in the clean piney air, and soothe your frayed urban nerves. One path leads down to a gravel-covered "beach" and a slow-trickling creek, where you can dip your feet or hands into the icy-cold waters. There are lots of humongous decaying tree trunks, felled from old age or past windstorms, to clamber over/under and explore. My touristy group of eight (8) adults spent about an hour here. Highly recommend!
Glenn LeongGlenn Leong
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