Adventure & Outdoors
An ancient peat bog inside Pacific Spirit Park with carnivorous sundews, interpretive signs, and a volunteer restoration story that beats most bios.
Dunbar, near Camosun Street and Queen Elizabeth Elementary, Pacific Spirit Regional Park
More infoCamosun Bog is thousands of years old and takes about ten minutes to cross, which is either a paradox or a miracle. A 300-metre boardwalk threads through sphagnum moss and carnivorous sundews on the Dunbar edge of Pacific Spirit Park, and the interpretive signs guarantee one of you re-reads the bit about plants eating insects. Loop the surrounding forest trails to stretch it to an hour.
Find the bog on the Dunbar side of Pacific Spirit Park, the closest entrance is off Camosun Street near Queen Elizabeth Elementary, where there's free on-street parking on the residential blocks. From there it's a short walk to the boardwalk, a flat ~300-metre loop that carries you across the open bog past sphagnum moss, Labrador tea and tiny carnivorous sundews, with interpretive signs explaining how a volunteer group has been restoring it since the '90s. Don't miss reading a couple of the panels, they're the secret weapon that makes this date a conversation. The bog alone is about ten minutes; to make it a full outing, link onto the surrounding Pacific Spirit forest trails for a shaded hour-long wander. Want the quick version? Just do the boardwalk loop on its own for a ~10 to 15 minute curiosity stop.
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