A rugged northern Vancouver Island park of old-growth forest, sheltered inlets, and bald eagle habitat.
Quatsino Provincial Park
Quatsino Provincial Park is a small but ecologically important protected area on the northern coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. The park lies along Quatsino Sound, a deeply indented waterway characteristic of the island's rugged north coast, and protects a landscape where forested shorelines, sheltered marine inlets, and freshwater lakes meet within a relatively compact footprint.
The park is especially valued for its stands of old-growth trees, which are among the largest remaining in the region, and for the network of small lakes, the protected waters of Koprino Harbour, and the estuary of the Koprino River. These habitats together support a high concentration of bald eagles, dense populations of black bears, coastal black-tailed deer, and cougars, making the park a significant stronghold of coastal temperate wildlife on northern Vancouver Island.
Access is intentionally limited: the park is reachable only by boat or by rough logging roads, with Port Hardy and Port Alice nearby. This relative remoteness, combined with the park's position on a popular kayaking route along Quatsino Sound, makes Quatsino Provincial Park primarily a wilderness and marine-access recreation destination rather than a developed visitor park.
