In one case, visitors can peer right through the tree’s charred rimmed hole to the river beyond.This report illustrates the typical weather in Elk Grove, based on a statistical analysis of historical hourly weather reports and model reconstructions from Januto December 31, 2016. Some had a charred segment on the outer bark, but many of the ancients bore blackened scars that penetrated deep within their heartwood. Many of the old growth trees in Elk Falls Park, and a few along the Millennium Trail, bear the imprint of fire. He states the first report of the fire came from ‘fire lookouts at Elk Falls and Upper Campbell’ at 4:15 PM, on July 15, 1938.įive minutes later two employees of the Bloedel, Stewart & Welch logging company reported ‘a curl of dark smoke …coming from a pile of this seasons’ cold-decked logs about 300 feet away from the track.’ Ignited in early July, during the next three weeks it burned over 74,495 acres,” wrote John Parminter in Darkness at Noon – The Bloedel Fire of 1938. The most famous forest fire in British Columbia’s history was about to spring to life. “It was the driest June since weather records were first collected in 1874. Inside one of the blackened scars penetrating into an old growth cedar’s interior – Photo courtesy Roy L HalesĪ plaque in the Elk Falls parking lot remembers the great fire of 1938. The town of Campbell River came into being as a service centre for the surrounding logging camps and became a regional centre after the road pushed up from Courtenay in 1920. They moved on, but others came to settle. The first Europeans to pay attention to Campbell River were loggers harvesting the easily accessible timber along the shoreline in the 1860s. She said they do maintenance work on the trails every second day and clean the parking lot at the John Hart Generating Station daily. One of the park workers, Kelly Cronin, was raking the gravel along the Canyon View Trail during one of Cortes Currents visits. Pre-contact trails would not have been as well manicured as the walking paths are today. (The Canyon Loop trail was closed during the John Hart Generating Station Replacement Project.) Two of these nations, the We Wai Kai and Wei Wai Kum, erected totem poles at the John Hart Generating Station for the reopenning of the Canyon Loop trail on December 18, 2019.
Hunt) and We Wai Kai pole (carved by Max Chikite) at the John Hart Generating Station – Photo by Roy L Hales The Old Growth Loop Trail takes you through even thicker concentrations of old growth.Visitors pass through large stands of old growth, as they pass Elk Falls, Deer Falls, the Dolphin Pool and Moose Falls. The Riverside Loop Trail runs along the bank of the Campbell River.The Millennium Trail, connecting the Canyon View Trail (and John Hart Generating Station) to the network of trails around Elk Falls.A 0.4 km path takes visitors from the park entrance to the Millennium trail.There are five trails in Elk Falls Provincial Park: They scattered throughout this section of the forest.Įlk Falls Provincial Park was created in 1940, ‘to protect rare old growth forests and related ecosystems, as well as the Elk Falls waterfall and the related canyon.’Ī large number of the trees along the Riverside and Old Growth Loop Trails are more than 330 years old. “The old-growth forests in the area are comprised of giant Western Red Cedar and Douglas Fir trees, with many in excess of 60 meters tall and hundreds of years old.” While only minutes from downtown, the Riverside and Old Growth Loop Trails are not listed in the ‘ Top 10 things to do within one hour of Campbell River.’Ī single sentence is devoted to the forest giants in the Best Trails in Elk Falls Provincial Park: Screenshot from Parking and trail locations in Elk Falls Park and on BC Hydro property – courtesy B.C.
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