VES ETC
Names and Nuance
Regional Parks Knowledge
Numbers and Nonsense
Friends, Flora, Foes, and Fauna
100

The least punitive, in terms of a financial penalty, regulation in the parks bylaw

What is Illegal Parking ($50)

100

Intervale, Hutchinson, Devonshire

What is the E&N Rail Trail

100

This regional park boundary crosses into 4 different municipalities

What is Thetis Lake. Saanich, View Royal, Langford, Highlands

100

Contaminating a regional park or waterway could land you with this fine amount

What is $300

200

Bridle, Marsh, Skunk Cabbage Loop

What is Francis King Regional Park

200

There are this many bathroom facilities in East Sooke Regional Park

What is 5

200

CRD Regional Parks and Trails saw over this number of millions of visitors in 2023

What is 8

300

CRD Regional Parks are assisted by over this many hundred volunteers annually

What is 600

300

The 55km long Galloping Goose Regional Trail, in some capacity, runs through each one of these municipalities/EA

What are Victoria, Saanich, View Royal, Colwood, Langford, Metchosin, Sooke, Juan De Fuca EA.
300

There are this many regional parks where the Ocean can be accessed

What is 10

300

This many regional parks require your pupper, your doggo, your little friend, your pooch, your pal to be on leash in the entirety of the park

What is 5

300

Growing in dense swathes of open forest, using rootlets to affix itself to its surroundings. This invasive plant although lush in appearance is not well liked by its tall tree neighbours

What is English Ivy

400

All Regional Parks containing the word 'Hill' in their name

What are Bear Hill, Gonzales Hill, Horth Hill, Lone Tree Hill, Mill Hill, Sooke Hills Wilderness

400

The first 5 regional parks established in 1966

What is Island View Beach, Horth Hill, Coles Bay, Elk/Beaver and Witty's Lagoon

400

Elk/Beaver Lake as one of the busiest recreation parks, has this many designated parking lots on its map

What is 10

400

With flowers that appear like mini sunflowers, this rare plant shares a name with a triangular shaped shoulder muscle.

What is Deltoid Balsamroot

500

All Regional Parks parks beginning with the letter 'M'

What is Mill Hill, Matheson Lake, Mount Work, Mount Wells, Mount Parke, Matthews Pt, Mountain Forest, Mill Farm

500

5 Summits accessible by official trails within Sea to Sea and Sooke Hills Wilderness Regional Parks

What are Mount Quimper, Mount Brule, Mount Braden, Empress Mountain and Sugarloaf

500

The 6 bridges on the Galloping Goose from Kapoor to Matheson Lake

What are Parasite Creek, Todd Creek, Charters Creek, Ayum Creek, Veitch Creek, and Matheson Creek