Qualla: Spipiyus Provincial Park https://qualla.com/spipiyus-provincial-park en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/z/f/spipiyus-provincial-park-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Spipiyus Provincial Park https://qualla.com/spipiyus-provincial-park Spipiyus Provincial Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/spipiyus-provincial-park/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. The marbled murrelet is a seabird that nests in trees. Not at the coast, where you might expect a seabird to live, but deep in old-growth forest, sometimes kilometers from the ocean, on the mossy limbs of ancient conifers. This peculiar nesting habit -- one of the strangest in the avian world -- is why Spipiyus Provincial Park exists. At nearly 30 square kilometers on the Sechelt Peninsula's Caren Range, the park protects the pockets of old-growth forest these birds depend on, standing as a buffer between one of British Columbia's most unusual species and the logging roads that surround its home.

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]]> Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/z/f/spipiyus-provincial-park-wp/c0zf-spipiyus-provincial-park-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Spipiyus Provincial Park: Twin Peaks Above the Strait https://qualla.com/spipiyus-provincial-park/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. Two summits define the park's skyline. Mount Hallowell reaches 1,228 meters, its peak accessed by a well-maintained 1.5-kilometer trail that ends at the historic Mount Hallowell Fire Lookout Tower. From that tower, the panorama unfolds in every direction: Pender Harbour's scatter...

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]]> Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/z/f/spipiyus-provincial-park-wp/c0zf-spipiyus-provincial-park-twin-peaks-above-the-strait.mp3 0:06 2 full Spipiyus Provincial Park: Logging Roads as Trails https://qualla.com/spipiyus-provincial-park/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. More than 55 kilometers of high-clearance four-wheel-drive trails wind through the park's upper elevations, all of them repurposed from a previous life. The Halfmoon-Carlson Forest Service Road traverses the heights, branching to former logging platforms that now serve as viewpoi...

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]]> Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/z/f/spipiyus-provincial-park-wp/c0zf-spipiyus-provincial-park-logging-roads-as-trails.mp3 0:06 3 full Spipiyus Provincial Park: The Murrelet's Hidden Nursery https://qualla.com/spipiyus-provincial-park/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. The marbled murrelet spends most of its life at sea, diving for small fish in coastal waters. But when breeding season arrives, it flies inland to nest on the broad, mossy branches of old-growth trees -- sometimes 50 kilometers or more from the ocean. A single egg is laid on a pl...

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]]> Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/0/z/f/spipiyus-provincial-park-wp/c0zf-spipiyus-provincial-park-the-murrelets-hidden-nursery.mp3 0:06 4 full Spipiyus Provincial Park: Elevation and Isolation https://qualla.com/spipiyus-provincial-park/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. Spipiyus is not a park that invites casual visitors. There are no campgrounds, no visitor centers, no interpretive signs explaining what you are looking at. The reward is the terrain itself: subalpine meadows giving way to dense forest, ridge walks above the cloud line, and a sol...

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