Cathedral Grove videos

Take a video tour to Cathedral Grove and see 800 year old trees in this ancient forest park. Another amazing Vancouver Island attraction that makes a perfect day trip from the Living Forest Oceanside Campground, where the only thing we overlook is the waterfront!

In the presence of the ancients

Cathedral Grove, located in MacMillan Provincial Park, is one of the most accessible stands of giant Douglas fir trees on Vancouver Island. Here visitors can stroll through a network of trails under the shadow of towering ancient Douglas-fir trees, majestic pillars untouched by the modern world -- some more than 800 years old. Trails on either side of the highway lead visitors through the mighty stands of this coastal forest. On the south side you will find the largest Douglas firs - one ...

Brian and me driving to Port Alberni

Gaze up at huge 800 year old giant trees at this living old-growth forest. Cathedral Grove / MacMillian Provincial Park is a great place to spend the day with your family and see what Vancouver Island was like hundreds of years ago. Cathedral Grove is located just outside Parksville and Qualicum Beach on the way to Port Alberni, Ucluelet / Tofino, and the Pacific Rim National Park attractions of Wickaninnish and Long Beach.

Driving by the parking lots (at least, as they were in 2003) for Cathedral Grove, on my way out of Port Alberni.

Some of the last Video clips that I took with James (Prototype87) while he was here in March with some older never before posted footage of Cathedral Grove from last September. It's a bit random... Music by fehquig using Garage Band

After visiting Coombs we went West towards Port Alberni and Sproat lake. We camped near the lake...

Ancient forest located near Coombs on Vancouver Island.

This is a 2004 TV news story about the BC government's attempt to clear an area beside Cathedral Grove in MacMillan Provincial Park for a parking lot. The Wilderness Committee's Mid-Vancouver-Island Chapter opposed the parking lot plans - as did a growing number of individuals and organizations. Eventually the parking lot plan was scrapped and as of today (2009) there is no more talk of a parking lot from the BC government. For more info on the Wilderness Committee's campaign to protect our ...

Driving through Cathedral Grove on Vancouver Island last year. I'm putting this up because I noticed that Cathedral Grove made the shortlist for CBC's Seven Wonders of Canada.

I went for a walk amongst the world's tallest living organisms on a gorgeous spring day in Northern California, moving in silence through the towering ancient redwoods preserved in Cathedral Grove. The stand of massive trees is as close to a sacred natural space as I have encountered on Earth to date.

Went with Charles, Andrew and Chris on the way to Vitoria. I felt so small between those trees.

Driving to Port Alberni through an old growth forest

Cathedral Grove, BC

Vancouver Island's Cathedral Gove with Barbara, Jim & Jill

Driving through the Grove.

Short clip of my father and me in the Cathedral Grove of Muir Woods

this poem is from my third book a different way of being. I made this short film as a submission for Sins Invalid, a Leroy Moore production-based out of San Francisco.

Video of majestic Catherdral Gove Port Alberni British Columbia imaginationfx.ca

I walked the length of a fallen tree.... it would have been really high if it was still upright!!

A hollow red cedar tree in Cathedral Grove park.

Here is the The Biggest Tree In Cathedral Grove Park . It measures 76 metres or 249.34 feet tall. It's a Douglas fir.