Miracle Beach Provincial Park

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Miracle Beach Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located at Black Creek on the eastern shore of Vancouver Island between Comox and Campbell River.

Vegetation in the park is typical for the region's forests with Douglas-fir, western hemlock and western red cedar most prominent. Salal is the most abundant shrub. Most of the park's soils were mapped as well-drained gravelly loamy sands or sandy loams and classified as brown podzolic in a soil survey published in 1959; however, the abundance of bleached sand grains on forest trails is evidence of an albic horizon characteristic of podzols.

The Strait of Georgia forms the park's eastern boundary. Sandy beaches are extensive, especially at low tide. Black Creek, which flows through the park, is a spawning area for salmon.

[edit] References

• Ministry of Environment - Miracle Beach
• Day, J.H., L. Farstad, and D.G. Laird, 1959. Soil Survey of Southeast Vancouver Island and Gulf Islands, British Columbia. B.C. Soil Survey, Rept. No. 6, Can. Dept. Agric.