Pacific Rim National Park Agnes and Jean-Claude Levesque, are only two of the one million visitors who travel Highway 4 each year to experience the Pacific Rim National Park. The area, a moss-laden landscape of mist and surf, was a little-known outpost until 1970 when the National Park was born. It is a tribute to the scale of the environment that so many travellers can be absorbed into it and still leave it so (apparently) empty. Nowhere else on earth has the meeting of land and sea created the magnificent beauty of Canada’s Pacific Coast. The best known region of the Park is Long Beach. It is famous for the long sandy beaches of Schooner Cover and Wickaninnish and Florencia Bays, stretching between the two villages of Tofino and Ucluelet. The 13,715-hectare Long Beach unit incorporates numerous rocky points and headlands, offshore islets and the mudflats of Grice Bay, an important wintering habitat and stopover for migrating waterfowl. The impressive Green Point Campground caters to campers and RVs and, along with the Wickaninnish Centre and Parks Canada, provides valuable and interesting heritage learning programs on cultural features and the natural ecosystem of the Pacific Rim National Park. Long Beach caters to visitors seeking to relax in the picnic areas, comb the beaches or stroll along the trails and boardwalks. Late June to early September is high season in the Park and surrounding area. Visitors can drive the Pacific Rim Highway (Highway 4) from Port Alberni to Long Beach, 108 kilometres of paved winding mountain highway. Busses run between Port Alberni and Ucluelet/Tofino, or the more adventurous can hop aboard the MV Lady Rose or MV Frances Barkley for the drip down the Alberni Inlet and Barkley Sound to Ucluelet. What a wonderful destination. So, head to the west coast this summer and experience the wonder of nature. Why not stop in at our Port Alberni Arbutus RV location (on Beaver Creek Road) on your way through? The coffee’s always on and the local chat is always plentiful!