Open house on draft Garibaldi Park Management Plan draws passionate crowd
If BC Parks set out to upset a large number of people with its plans to update the management plan for Garibaldi Provincial Park, then mission accomplished. Over 100 people crammed into a small meeting room at the Whistler Conference Centre at the public open house on Dec. 6 to provide their sometimes-passionate feedback on the draft plan, which was released a few weeks ago.
Open house on draft Garibaldi Park Management Plan draws mountain bike crowd
If BC Parks set out to upset large numbers of people with their intention to update the management plan for Garibaldi Provincial Park, then mission accomplished. Over 100 people crammed into a small conference room at the Whistler Conference Centre at the public open house on Dec. 6 to provide their sometimes passionate feedback on the draft plan, which was released a few weeks ago.
The mountain bike community in Whistler is dumbfounded after receiving a draft of the updated Garibaldi Park Management Plan on Thursday, Nov. 15. The plan would continue to ban mountain biking in the section of the park that includes the Singing Pass and Musical Bumps trails, despite almost 85 per cent of survey respondents in favour of full or limited access to the area.