{"id":2765,"date":"2019-06-25T09:56:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T16:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vancouvertrails.com\/blog\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2025-02-21T15:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:57:19","slug":"joffre-lakes-safety-and-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vancouvertrails.com\/blog\/joffre-lakes-safety-and-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Joffre Lakes Safety and Access"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the increase in usage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vancouvertrails.com\/trails\/joffre-lakes\/\">Joffre Lakes Provincial Park<\/a> and safety issues with vehicles parking along Highway 99, BC Parks, the Lil\u2019wat Nation and N\u2019Quatqua have developed a 2019 Visitor Use Management Action Plan for the Joffre Lakes area.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BC Government website, some of these safety measures include:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>increasing park presence with two First Nations stewards working alongside park rangers<\/li>\n<li>expanding the parking lots to increase vehicle capacity from 250 to 450 cars to accommodate approximately 1,350 people per day<\/li>\n<li>offering a shuttle service from Duffey Lake Park parking lot to the Joffre Lakes Park trailhead<\/li>\n<li>implementing a compliance plan and towing vehicles illegally parked on Highway 99<\/li>\n<li>installing an emergency satellite phone at the Joffre Lakes trailhead as a means of communication for public safety.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The parking overflow parking lot will be expanded in the early summer of 2019 and the main parking lot expanded in the Fall of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Any vehicles illegally parked on the side of the highway will be towed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BC Government plans to implement a number of safety measures to Joffre Lakes Provincial Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[728,195],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-info","category-pemberton","tag-joffre-lakes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.vancouvertrails.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/joffre-lakes.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4652t-IB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vancouvertrails.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vancouvertrails.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vancouvertrails.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vancouvertrails.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vancouvertrails.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vancouvertrails.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3997,"href":"https:\/\/www.vancouvertrails.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/3997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vancouvertrails.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vancouvertrails.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vancouvertrails.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vancouvertrails.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}