E. C. Manning Provincial Park

Manning Park is a vast protected landscape in southern British Columbia along Highway 3 near the Canada-United States border, encompassing coastal rainforest, alpine meadows, lakes, peaks, and the headwaters of the Skagit and Similkameen rivers. Long used by Indigenous travelers, the area was explored by Europeans in the early nineteenth century and evolved from a reserve created in 1931 into a Class A provincial park in 1941. Its modern form was shaped by the Hope-Princeton Highway, completed in 1949 through the area. Renamed for chief forester Ernest Callaway Manning, the park is now both a conservation area and a major recreation destination known for wildflowers, trails, wildlife, and heavy visitation.

British Columbia · Canada