Gulf Islands National Park, British Columbia

Gulf Islands National Park, British Columbia

At only 24 square miles (62 km2) Gulf Islands National Park is one of the smallest national parks in Canada. The islands lie between the City of Vancouver and Vancouver Island. It is also one of Canada’s newest national parks having been founded in 2003. Parkland is located on 15 different islands, some of which …

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Pacific Rim National Park, British Columbia

Pacific Rim National Park is located on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It comprises a Pacific coastal ecosystem and is known as the surfing capital of Canada. The park actually consists of several parts along the coast of the Pacific Ocean. The Long Beach section is the easiest to visit and has the best …

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Mount Revelstoke National Park, British Columbia

Mount Revelstoke National Park is located in the Canadian Rockies and is very close to Glacier National Park. They two parks are so close together and so similar they should almost be considered one park for visitation purposes. The unique feature of Mount Revelstoke is that you can actually drive all the way up to …

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Glacier National Park, British Columbia

The name of this park can be confusing as there is a Glacier National Park in Montana as well as a Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. Glacier is a Rocky Mountain national park which is not part of the core group centered around the Continental Divide. (Yoho, Kootenay, Banff, and Jasper). It is approximately …

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This Week in Travel – Episode 173

Jen Leo, Chris Christensen and myself are joined by this week’s guest Tim Leffel from CheapLivingAbroad.com. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts This Week’s News: Knee defender: United flight grounded, cops called after passengers argue over seats reclining If You Try to Publish a Picture of this Statue in Denmark, You’d Better be Ready to Pay Up …

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