Mount Seymour Provincial Park

[3] Mount Seymour Provincial Park provides visitors with a variety of recreational activities and animals with natural habitat.

[6] Mount Seymour Provincial Park is a habitat for a variety of wildlife animal and plant species.

Among the bigger animals, deer and coyotes are most frequently observed near the access road, while in the backcountry, black bears, bobcats or cougars can be seen.

[3] The park contains old-growth Douglas fir trees and western red cedar that cover the landscape.

Invasive plants (also called "non-indigenous" or "non-native") outcompete native species for basic necessities, such as nutrients and space, affecting many habitats and bioregions.

[11] St John’s wort, Lamium and Himalayan blackberry grow among the thicket of native flora that provide a view for occasional mountain bikers that pass by.

Some of the other invasive plants inventoried by the park include: Japanese knotweed is harmful to the ecosystem because it takes up available habitat for the native species thereby decreasing the biodiversity and disrupting the food chain.

[15] Also, ISC organizes Community Weed Pulls to gather volunteer groups to get rid of the invasive plants.

[10] Mount Seymour Provincial Park provides 14 different hiking trails varying with elevation levels and difficulties.

[17] *Unclear information is marked with - Mountain biking is permitted only on designated trails within the park boundary.

With a park use permit, this allows Mount Seymour Resorts to provide commercial recreation services, which may include summer or winter activities.

This in part, has led to hundreds of lost, stranded, and injured hikers, as well as many skiers and snowshoers that have required rescue, and even suffered death.

[23] Visitors should be aware there are incidents such as in July 2010, a longboarder was killed from an accident outside Mount Seymour Provincial Park.

The team consists of approximately 40 volunteers skilled in search and rescue operations in mountain, canyon and urban settings.

They have their transmitters set up on the slopes of Mount Seymour, allowing it to face over the entire Greater Vancouver area.

A Douglas fir tree is commonly seen throughout the Mount Seymour Provincial Park.
Fannin Range
Runner Peak and Mount Elsay from the Elsay Lake Trail
Snowshoeing is a common pastime during the winter within the Mount Seymour Provincial Park
North Shore Rescue members perform a rescue training exercise on a vertical cliff.
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