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Regional Park Reserves & Ecological Conservancy Areas
Metro Vancouver's regional parks system includes three regional park reserves (Blaney Bog, Widgeon Marsh and Fraser Islands) and two ecological conservancy areas (Burns Bog and Codd Wetland). A reserve is a regional park that is not yet open to the public. The priority for the ecological conservation areas is ecological protection, not public use.
Plans & Reports
Find the strategies and plans that shape the vision for Regional Parks, as a system or an individual park. Also the place to find out more about research in regional parks.
Projects & Initiatives
Recently completed and ongoing projects and initiatives.
Regional Parks Bylaws & Policies
See the bylaws and policies that govern the use of your regional parks.
Natural Resource Management
Metro Vancouver's goal is to conserve ecosystem health to ensure long-term resiliency. Regional parks play an important role in conserving natural processes, and also sustaining diverse biological communities and habitat. Our goal is to accommodate public use of parkland within the limits of acceptable impact to the ecosystems.

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Centennial Beach (Boundary Bay Regional Park) – Proposed pay-to-reserve parking program

Metro Vancouver is gathering feedback regarding a proposed seasonal pay-to-reserve parking program at Boundary Bay Regional Park to manage parking spaces and to reduce traffic at the park during peak times during the summer months.

Regional Parks Plan Update

Metro Vancouver is updating the 2016 plan that will guide delivery of the Regional Parks service.

Grouse Mountain Regional Park Trail & Site Improvements Project

Funding from the governments of Canada and BC, in partnership with Metro Vancouver, will allow upgrades to popular trails in Grouse Mountain Regional Park as well as adding new enhancements such as viewpoints, a revitalized trailhead area and new connector trails.

Delta Nature Reserve & Delta South Surrey Regional Greenway – Management Plan

Metro Vancouver is developing a management plan for the Delta Nature Reserve and the Delta South Surrey Regional Greenway that will guide decision making over the next 20 years.

Campbell Valley Regional Park Management Plan

The Campbell Valley Regional Park Management Plan, approved November 2020, is being implemented over the next 5 years.

Regional Park Partnership Program

The Park Partnership Program is a way for Metro Vancouver to work with community volunteers to promote and protect the system of regional parks.

Widgeon Marsh Regional Park: Design Stage

Widgeon Marsh Regional Park is a beautiful place filled with wetlands, forests and sweeping mountain views. Although it’s not currently open to the public, the park has a recently approved management plan that provides a framework to design the park.

Campbell Valley Regional Park Ecological Enhancement Project

An ecological enhancement project, on the Perimeter Trail from 16th Avenue to 20th Avenue near 200th Street, started July 2015 and will continue over the next few years. A 2.7 hectare section of parkland, formerly hayfields and rental residences, will be made into wetland and pollinator meadow habitat.

Metro Vancouver acknowledges that the region’s residents live, work, and learn on the shared territories of many Indigenous peoples, including 10 local First Nations: Katzie, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem, Matsqui, Musqueam, Qayqayt, Semiahmoo, Squamish, Tsawwassen, and Tsleil-Waututh.

Metro Vancouver respects the diverse and distinct histories, languages, and cultures of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit, which collectively enrich our lives and the region.

Regional Park Reserves & Ecological Conservancy Areas

Plans & Reports