BC Parks Launches New Website!

The new BCParks.Ca website is now live! After a year of being in a beta (user testing) phase, and after lots of engagement with users, BC Parks has launched a site that provides a streamlined, inclusive and more engaging experience.

Launch highlights and what you need to know:

• The new site is a work in progress and will undergo continuous/on-going improvements. If you have feedback about the new site, please engage with the online BC Parks survey at HelpShapeBC. BC Parks encourages you to share this survey link to any others in your networks who may wish to engage and share feedback.
• All content pages (pages that are not park pages) have been moved from the legacy website to the new site. Some sections have already been rewritten to be more accessible and clear, while other sections are being rewritten in the coming months.
• Sections have been rearranged and renamed to make it easier to find the most visited information. These changes came as a result of feedback from site users. BC Parks encourages you to explore the site and take note of new locations of your most frequently visited content.
• With 1,037 parks and protected areas pages or sub-sites, BC Parks is approaching these pages in a phased approach based on site visitation statistics for each page. All park pages have migrated content available to access on the new site, and BC Parks will continue to update links and documents in order of highest visited pages to lowest, until it is complete. Given the low risk associated with these less visited pages, the benefit of launching the site and having folks familiarize themselves with it, prior to the busy season, outweighs the drawback of visitors potentially finding a few broken links.
• The legacy website is no longer accessible to the public but has been archived for record keeping and to ensure BC Parks maintains internal access should the need arise to use this information.

BC Parks feels the best way for you to know about the new site is to experience it and they encourage you to head over to BCParks.Ca and stay engaged with them by sharing your feedback!