Changelog

What's open, restricted or closed in the Long Beach Unit — the trails, Green Point, the dog rules south of Green Point and this year's passes — checked against Parks Canada's bulletins, which stay the live authority.

Every quake recorded near Tofino lately, from Earthquakes Canada, with the Cascadia story and what to do when the shaking is long or strong. We read the Canadian feed because it sees dozens of small offshore quakes the US feed misses.

Tofino's summer water supply is the limit the whole town lives within, so each summer the District sets a conservation stage with rules for everyone. The new tool shows the stage in force now (Stage 1 since 12 May), exactly what you can and can't do at it, and the full Stage 1 to 3 ladder — with the District's own page as the source for the live stage.

Tofino sits on an exposed Pacific coast where a winter gale is part of the season, not a surprise. The new tool reads Environment Canada's official warnings for the west coast of Vancouver Island and shows the wind right now, with the places to check power and the highway when a storm comes in.

Tofino now has four tools, built around the one fact that shapes the town: Highway 4 is the only road in. "Is Highway 4 Open?" reads DriveBC's official feed and tells you plainly whether the road is closed, with roadwork and incidents along the whole corridor. Alongside it: official Tofino tide predictions, a live surf-and-sea read for Long Beach, Cox Bay and Chesterman, and an air-quality check built for summer wildfire-smoke days.