Miracle Beach Provincial Park

Miracle Beach Provincial Park on eastern Vancouver Island protects a meeting of shoreline, estuary, and second-growth forest while serving as a major recreation area for beach use, picnicking, nature appreciation, and camping. Its defining broad foreshore includes an intertidal sandbar shaped by sediment from nearby beaches, Black Creek, and the Oyster River. The park also includes Black Creek estuary habitat and a coho salmon spawning stream. Coast Salish use predates later forestry surveys and logging in the late 19th century and again in the 1920s and 1930s. Land bought for subdivision in 1948 instead became a provincial park, established in 1950 and expanded in the following years.