Trees
This tree is the fastest growing in BC, growing up to 2 m per year
What is Black Cottonwood?
This park once served as a stopover for travelers heading to the Cowichan Valley on the Old Government Road
What is Sooke Hills Wilderness Regional Park?
As the entry code suggests, there were this number of regional parks in 1985
What is fifteen?
Once a home base for those who saved lives and those who served food, today this asset is home to educators.
What is the Beaver Lake Nature Centre?
There are 5 of these throughout regional parks where you might find a big brown, little brown or yuma.
What are bat boxes?
The seeds of this native tree are contained in a “samara” which enables the wind to carry the seed farther from the parent tree
What is a Bigleaf Maple?
Once destined to be a 5-star luxury resort, this regional park now offers a different kind of accommodation
What is Sooke Potholes Regional Park?
This year, the Official Regional Parks Plan was launched. It was also the year that the first regional trail was established.
What is 1987?
This self-operating, one-of-a-kind asset helps secure millions of dollars of other park assets each night
What is the black automatic gate at Mill Hill?
Despite it's size, you might be surprised that Mount Work Regional Park only has 7 of these
What are park benches?
The “flowers” of this tree are not true flowers, but modified leaves called bracts
What is Pacific Dogwood?
Named after the family who previously lived there, this park now provides shelter for species of the slithery, endangered variety.
What is Brooks Point Regional Park?
In 2005, this park was established in partnership with the TLC. In 2015, ownership was fully transferred to the CRD.
<DAILY DOUBLE> Once used to determine local time, this asset now houses devices that track the flow of number 1 and 2 in the CRD
What is the Gonzales Observatory?
Where did you come from, where did you go? You can find out using one of the 100 of these in the parks.
What are directional maps?
The west coast of Vancouver Island is home to this tree species which can reach heights of up to 95 m with a 5 m diameter.
What is a Sitka Spruce?
"Wooded Wonderland", a storybook and fairy-tale themed amusement park once operated in this regional park
What is Elk/Beaver Lake?
In 2017, this trail, which is part of a much larger network, was officially opened.
What is the Trans Canada Trail?
This asset hung high and mighty above a busy park entrance. Today it prefers to show off its new look sitting closer to the ground
What is the Thetis Lake entrance portal log?
You will ride over 1162 of these on your journey across the Gorge
What are wooden deck boards on the Selkirk Trestle?
<DAILY DOUBLE> These 3 native tree species are the first to re-establish on the landscape after wildfire.
What are lodgepole pine, Douglas-fir and red alder?
At the summit of this park you can check out the Regional Parks 35th Anniversary peak-finder cairn built on the foundations of a former Forest Service lookout tower.
What is Mill Hill Regional Park?
It was in this year that the Volunteers in Parks Program was established. It is also the year that E.T. went home.
What is 1982?
If this park asset had ears, it would have heard the clucks of chickens and the high-pitched whine of a router
What is the barn at Bear Hill?
So far this year, the Park Operations team has spent 6,685.25 on these.
What are hours on the regional trails?