Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park

Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park is a gem of a destination for embarking on a long beach walk at low tide, enjoying stunning sulking sunsets or taking back time relaxing, reading a book amongst lapping waves. Created of rocks, sand and driftwood the popular beach is located near Parksville, BC on Vancouver Island.

The big draw of Rathtrevor Beach is the abundance of marine wildlife especially seabirds, the wide open spaces at low tide and the comfort in finding a private spot of sand to sit back and relax while watching the tides reseed as far out as a kilometre. As you can imagine the low tide frees up allot of sandy beach on a 2 kilometre wide beach!

Rathtrevor Beach is a popular destination in every season. A beach made for families, for soul searching beach walks, throwing a frisbee, photography or just for relaxing. There is also a wooded area filled with walking, tenting and RV campsites all close to the sandy beach and many amenities.

Onsite at Rathtrevor Beach are 5 parking lots, a couple of picnic shelters for large gatherings, 150 individual picnic tables, pit and flush toilets, an adventure playground, an outdoor Amphitheatre and a Nature House. With this much to offer, you can imagine how busy it can get at Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park in some seasons.

Throughout Rathtrevor Park is about 5 kilometre of, mostly, wheelchair accessible hiking trails. The network of trails inter-twines, back and forth, with the beach and the wooded forest area. The forests of Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park includes a family of trees like the Douglas Fir, Hemlock, Balsam, Western Red Cedar, Spruce, Arbutus and Maple trees. And... magnificent ocean views. The trail system is easily laid out for all to understand at all information shelters at Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park.

The Provincial Park is ideal for swimming when the tides are low making it perfect for children of all ages to enjoy. The sun keeps the sand so warm at low tide, that when the tides come back in the ocean water becomes really warm as the sand heats it up.

The Rathtrevor Provincial Park does not have a boat launch and all animals must be leashed with some seasonal pet restrictions in the busy seasons applying. So leash up.

Rathtrevor Beach is 3 kms south of Parksville, BC on Hwy 19a (Oceanside Route), located centrally on Vancouver Island . Leaving Nanaimo, keep an eye out for exit #51 from the Inland Island Highway (Hwy #19) and follow signs to Rathtrevor Provincial Park. Cheers and have fun beach worshipping!