Welcome to Friends of Pinery Park
Friends of Pinery Park is a charitable organization dedicated to education, promotion, preservation, and support of Pinery Provincial Park.
Our work includes a variety of programs and projects:
- Research to understand more about the Park’s rare ecosystems and how to protect them
- The Nature Store, which offers a wide selection of books, souvenirs, and other items
- Projects to protect and stabilize the Park’s freshwater dunes, such as our rolling boardwalks and marram grass transplanting
- Projects to make the Park’s natural beauty more accessible to all, including the accessible dock project and the big tire wheelchair
- Projects to protect pollinators and other insects critical to the ecosystem, including our native garden and the biannual native plant sales
- Programs to enhance the experience of our visitors, including the Art and Nature Exploration Backpacks, and the Junior Friends and Future Naturalists programs and so much more!
Native Plant Garden
Native Plant Garden
Native plants provide habitat for many pollinator species. The Pinery Native Garden was a collaboration between the Friends of Pinery Park, Return the Landscape, and Pinery staff. It provides inspiration for park visitors, reminding them of the importance of growing and conserving native plants.
Marram Grass Transplanting
Marram Grass Transplanting
Marram or dune grass helps to build and stabilize sand dunes so that they and other species can thrive. Every fall, Friends volunteers spend a day digging dune grass to fill orders.
Rolling Boardwalks
Rolling Boardwalks
These innovative boardwalks—wooden planks linked by used fire hose—help protect the Park’s fragile dunes. They are installed in the spring and removed and stored in the fall, providing defined pathways for visitors to use on their way to the beach during the busy season. Friends of Pinery Park volunteers help install and remove the boardwalks and seek funding to continue to support this important project.
Art and Nature Exploration Backpacks
Art and Nature Exploration Backpacks
Each of these special backpacks, which are provided by the Friends of Pinery Park, include binoculars, a magnifying glass, a compass, activity sheets, markers and paper, and more. Families can sign them out at the Visitor Centre and use them to enrich their visit to the park.
