List of British Columbia Provincial Parks

The British Columbia Parks and Protected Areas System is the collection of physical properties owned or administered by BC Parks, an agency of the British Columbia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy. These protected areas are established by order-in-council under one of several different pieces of enabling legislation.

The system includes 644 provincial parks, 2 recreation areas, 156 conservancies, 84 protected areas, and 148 ecological reserves. Four provincial parks are designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites, while 24 provincial parks are designated UNESCO Biosphere Reserves.

Provincial parks by regional district
This is a list of provincial parks of British Columbia by regional district.


 * Alberni-Clayoquot
 * Bulkley-Nechako
 * Capital
 * Cariboo
 * Central Coast
 * Central Kootenay
 * Central Okanagan
 * Columbia-Shuswap
 * Comox Valley
 * Cowichan Valley
 * East Kootenay
 * Fraser-Fort George
 * Fraser Valley
 * Kitimat-Stikine
 * Kootenay Boundary
 * Metro Vancouver
 * Mount Waddington
 * Nanaimo
 * North Coast
 * North Okanagan
 * Northern Rockies
 * Okanagan-Similkameen
 * Peace River
 * qathet
 * Squamish-Lillooet
 * Stikine Region
 * Strathcona
 * Sunshine Coast
 * Thompson-Nicola

List of provincial parks and protected areas

 * Please refer to the BC Parks website for lists of parks/protected areas and ecological reserves.

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Former Provincial Parks
This list includes provincial parks that were cancelled. Provincial parks that were cancelled for the purpose of moving the land into a different provincial park are not included. While some provincial parks were deleted as they were deemed to be not suitable for park purposes, most of the parks were deleted so they could be transferred to a municipality or regional district to be local or regional parks. In 2004 several provincial parks were moved into the federal Gulf Islands National Park; likewise a few provincial parks were moved into the Pacific Rim National Park and Gwaii Haanas National Park when those federal parks were established.