A free shuttle bus service will be available to take people out to the celebration at Ancient Forest Provincial Park this Saturday.
There will be two trips, both leaving from the CN Centre parking lot. The first leaves at 8:45 a.m. and returns to Prince George at 2:45 p.m. and the second leaves at 11:15 a.m. and returns at 5:15 p.m.
There will also be a service for McBride, leaving the village parking lot at 9 a.m. and returning at 3 p.m.
Each bus has 15 seats and room for two mobility scooters or wheelchairs.
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For those driving out, there will be limited parking at the Ancient Forest with additional room at the Slim Creek rest area six kilometres east of the forest. Shuttle buses will run between the rest area and the Ancient Forest from 10:45 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.
The celebration itself runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will feature local artists and musicians, from highland dancers and quilters, to painters and poets scattered throughout the forest performing and showing off their creations.
There will also be interpretive walks starting at 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m.
And everyone can get a taco lunch.
Also known as Chun T'oh Whujudut, (pronounced Chun Toe Wood-yu-jud), it's B.C.'s newest provincial park.
It covers 11,190-hectares and is home to an inland temperate rainforest made up of hemlock and western red cedar trees as old as 1,000 years and with trunks up to 16 metres around.
A centrepiece is a 500-metre wheelchair-friendly wooden boardwalk plus a further 2 1/2 kilometres of wood-planked walking trails built by volunteers.
In March 2016, then-Premier Christy Clark declared the Ancient Forest will be made a Class A provincial park and the legislation making it so was passed that same month.
