Category Archives: British Columbia
British Columbia can be viewed in four main camping areas. These divisions on TracksAndTrails are:
Coast Campgrounds
Northern Interior Campgrounds
Southern Interior West
Southern Interior East
Campgrounds in these camping areas can be viewed on our Free Camping Map where you can search for campgrounds near a city and click the location markers with free map directions links or information links. The TracksAndTrails Campground Map will display Provincial Parks, Recreation Sites and Private Campgrounds. I we are missing your favourite campground email us the information about it.
British Columbia has over 1000 Recreation Sites with Managed and Free or User Maintained Camping, over 800 provincial parks for hiking and more than 300 provincial parks campgrounds. Please leave your comments and questions on the information posts. Your backcountry intelligence will be valuable to other camping and backcountry enthusiasts. If you are new to BC Outdoors, your question may be answered by one of the many local visitors that peruse TracksAndTrails.ca
Hey Clayton
Your question regarding the development of BC Forest Service recreation sites across the province. In the history of the organizations, the BC Forest Service has been linked at times to BC Parks and BC Lands.
Many of the recreation sites were developed based on historical use, hunting camps, summer outings etc.
We also had a program before I joined the Forest Service in 1981, where we established UREP’s – Use, recreation and enjoyment of the Public Reserves throughout the province. These were established where we felt that we might have an interest in the future and the reserves established our “interest” in these sites and or locations.
Many of those have been developed – the UREP reserves were established on our behalf by the BC Lands, they were established under the Land Act reserve or notion of interest.
In later years many of the major forest tenures such as Tree Farm Licenses and Forest Licenses included development and maintenance of recreation sites, trails, bridges and so on.

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