If you had to guess the most popular thing to visit in British Columbia, and if you had to guess where the most accommodation is provided, you wouldn’t necessarily think of our parks.
Into this picture last week entered Chip and Summer Wilson with $100 million for the BC Parks Foundation, the charitable partner to BC Parks established in 2018 at arm’s length from government – a donation billed as the largest conservationist donation in Canadian history. He talks glowingly about visiting Stanley Park most every day and doing the Grouse Grind 100 times a year, and he can rattle off the signature parks of the province – his favourite being the challenging West Coast Trail . Recommendation for what we all ought to take in? “The snowshoe trails north of Whistler in the winter.”