Pacific Rim National Park Reserve Location
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve is situated along Vancouver Island's stunning west coast in British Columbia, Canada, nestled just southeast of Tofino.
The park has a 511 km² (197 mi²) surface area divided into three parts. They include Pacific Rim National Park Reserve - Long Beach Unit, the Broken Group Islands and the West Coast Trail, all bordered by mountains to the northwest and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Long Beach is the easiest one to access. It is one of Canada's most visited tourist attractions, which welcomes more than a million visitors yearly.
The Broken Group Islands is the only water access directly to the east of Ucluelet, an archipelago of more than a hundred small, rugged islands at the heart of Barkley Sound, between Loudoun Channel and Imperial Eagle Channel. This maze of channels and waterways is only accessible by watercraft and is a popular destination for kayaking.
This tranquil group of islands' natural features includes arches, sandbars, lagoons, blowholes, and secluded anchorages.
The largest forest islands are Nettle, Effingham, Turret, Dodd, Turtle, Jacques, and Gibraltar Island.
The West Coast Trail Unit in the park is a temperate coastal rainforest that includes the section of the coast southeast of Barkley Sound between Bamfield and Port Renfrew villages.
Numbers of the tallest and largest trees in Canada exist on the West Coast Trail. Old-growth cedar, hemlock and spruce inhabit this land.
West Coast Trail is known around the world for the wilderness variety and merits of hiking.
This region features natural wonders like the Tsusiat Falls at the Tsusiat River's mouth, a natural sandstone arch, countless caves, rocky headlands, creeks, coves, and tidal pools.
If you are interested, you can visit Amphitrite Point Lighthouse from the waterway, which is about 33 km (20.5 miles) to the northwest.
There are several beaches near Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, including Keeha Beach, Tapaltos Beach, Second Beach, and Mabens Beach.
Kichha Lake is at the park, but there are also some other lakes nearby. Among them are Calamity Lake, Pachena Lake, Sugsaw Lake, Frederick Lake, Black Lake and Rosseau Lake. The famous Nitinat Lake is about 80 km (49.7 miles) away, near Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park.