Key infrastructure upgrades for the 2008-09 fiscal year include what will be significant expenditures at the following provincial parks throughout the province (competitive tendering processes will determine the final cost of these projects):

• Ten Mile Lake Provincial Park – site redesign and reconstruction of the Touring Campground.
• Kikomun Creek Provincial Park – campground facilities reconstruction and water system upgrade.
• Golden Ears Provincial Park – water system reconstruction and waste water treatment plant replacement.
• Skaha Bluffs – construction of an entrance road and parking for the proposed provincial park.
• Mount Robson Provincial Park – upgrading and relocation of the Meadows sani-station.
• Swan Lake Provincial Park – campground reconstruction.
• Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park – footbridge replacement.
• Herald Provincial Park – water system upgrade.
• Goldstream Provincial Park – day-use and Visitor Centre water system upgrades, and day-use trail rebuild. 

To make the province’s parks system better than ever before, the B.C. government has made a capital investment of more than $83 million over the past four years (2004-08) to improve park facilities and acquire new lands.

Since 2001, the provincial government has established 57 new parks, 129 conservancies, one ecological reserve and eight protected areas, and expanded more than 50 parks and six ecological reserves, protecting more than 1.8 million hectares. Today, 14.26 per cent (or more than 13.5 million hectares) of British Columbia is protected – more than any other province in Canada.

To learn more about BC Parks, please visit www.bcparks.ca.