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Juan de Fuca Trail reopens after infrastructure repairs

Times Colonist27 May 2022p. A4Darron Kloster, Times ColonistJDF SAR era

Darron Kloster, Times Colonist. “Juan de Fuca Trail reopens after infrastructure repairs”, Times Colonist, p. A4, 27 May 2022 ref-only

Summary

Four large bridges, eight smaller spans and several sections of stairs and boardwalks were replaced on the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail, giving hikers wide-open access after nearly a year of detours and section closures. B.C. Parks spokeswoman Gina Bugslag said crews completed much of the work over the past six months, including complicated cliff ladder systems near Bear Beach campsite that were destroyed by a landslide that closed the section the previous October. The trail is difficult to maintain, she said, especially in sections where steep ravines lead to areas prone to landslides: "It's always an ongoing challenge to maintain the trail." B.C. Parks that year allocated $21.5 million over three years to expand outdoor recreation facilities across the province; the repairs on the Juan de Fuca cost $700,000.

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Headline“Juan de Fuca Trail reopens after infrastructure repairs”
PublicationTimes Colonist
Date27 May 2022
PageA4
BylineDarron Kloster, Times Colonist
EraJDF SAR era
Document typenews report
Original articleProQuest — the scanned page in the Times Colonist digital archive ↗
SourceProQuest Digital Times Colonist via GVPL (bulk export 2026-07-16)
Accessed2026-07-16
Licensingref-only
Record confidenceprobable

Archivist's note

The 2022 reopening, four years before the 2026 one also held here. The two together show the same pattern twice: storm or landslide damage, a year of closure, several hundred thousand dollars of repair, and a reopening announcement. The 2026 repairs cost $950,000 against $700,000 here. This page was recovered from inside the ProQuest bulk export already held in the archive, where it had been listed as referenced but not held.

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Scan of Times Colonist, page A4, 27 May 2022 — the full page, shown because the article region could not be verified
The full page. The article region could not be verified automatically, so the whole page is shown rather than risk a clipping that cuts off the article. the whole page is shown; the article region within it has not been isolated.

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This is a full newspaper page and carries unrelated stories as well as the article summarised here. The text is the OCR made from the ProQuest bulk export during the 2026 research phase, not a fresh pass. Recovered from page 56 of the bulk export. The project's own page map describes this page as carrying a Kathryn Farr item about two lost hikers; the passage recovered here is the trail-reopening story, and the Farr material was not legible in the recovered text.

Record id 2022-05-27-times-colonist-pa4-farr-two-lost-hikers. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2026-07-16_proquest_bulk_export_50_articles_2012-2026.pdf (page 56).

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