Bridal Veil Falls Provincial Park

IUCN Category III - Natural Monument or Feature

Bridal Veil Falls

The Bridal Veil Falls Provincial Park is one of only 32 hectares Provincial Park in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The park is located about 16 kilometers east of Chilliwack and approximately 13 kilometers south of Kent. From Vancouver, he can be reached via Highway 1 ( Trans-Canada Highway). The park is located in the Fraser Valley Regional District.

Plant

The small park is located at the transition from the Lower Mainland to Skagitkette, an offshoot of the Cascade Range. Located close to the highway, it is only around a wooded area around the waterfall. The case down the collapsing amount of water varies greatly depending on the current precipitation situation. In winter, the waterfall can even freeze. In the park is a protected area category III ( Natural Monument ).

History

The park was established in 1965 and is named after the waterfall. A lying in the fall line stone waterfall lets the fan out and gives him the look of a bridal veil, hence the English name of Bridal Veil Falls.

Beginning of 1900 was the waterfall of electricity for a nearby hotel, Bridal Falls Chalet. Today the foundations for the generator at the waterfall can be tracked.

As with almost all provincial parks in British Columbia, however, also applies to this, he long before the area populated by immigrants or she was part of a park, hunting territory of different tribes of First Nations, mainly the Sto: lo was.

Flora and Fauna

The predominant climate in the park is that of the temperate rainforest. Within the ecosystem of British Columbia, the area of ​​the Coastal Western Hemlock zone is assigned.

After the last of forest use and reforestation is growing here now, in addition to red cedar, red alder and Oregon maple, mainly in western American Hemlock ( in English-speaking Coastal Western Hemlock called ). In the undergrowth also Wies diamonds are mainly shield ferns ( Polystichum munitium ) and Broad-leaved Dornfarn but ( Thalictrum occidentale ) and the common snowberry.

Since the area is relatively densely populated, here are also found almost exclusively small mammals and the like, but also come porcupines and Columbia black-tailed deer before. The bird of mourning warbler or the Nuthatch can be seen here, for example.

Activities

There are other tourist attractions in close proximity to the park, it is a popular destination with its waterfall. From the parking area, a short trail ( about 20 minutes walk) leads to the waterfall. The park is very popular with climbers or ice climbers.