Strathcona Provincial Park, Provincial park in Strathcona Regional District, Canada

Strathcona Provincial Park covers 2,458 km² in the Vancouver Island Ranges, from Buttle Lake to the 2,198 m Golden Hinde. Its peaks are built of the Karmutsen Formation, a 6,500 m pile of pillow basalts and breccias. Below the grey summits, dark coniferous forest runs down to the lake shores.

Strathcona Provincial Park was founded in 1911 and named for Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, a railway pioneer and philanthropist. Its eastern boundary follows the line surveyed in 1890 for the E&N Railway land grant, though the railway was never built past Courtenay. In 1910 Premier Richard McBride set aside the reserve, and Price Ellison's expedition made the first ascent of Crown Mountain on 29 July 1910.

The park lies in the traditional territory of the Mowachaht and Muchalaht peoples of the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations. Visitor facilities are concentrated at Buttle Lake and Forbidden Plateau, and Buttle Lake is named for Commander John Buttle, who explored the area in the 1860s.

The area offers year-round camping facilities at Buttle Lake and Ralph River for different activities. Hikers, anglers, and swimmers should prepare for changing weather and check trail conditions before visiting.

Della Falls drops 440 metres and ranks among Canada's highest waterfalls, not the highest. Prospector and trapper Joe Drinkwater named it in 1899 after his wife. Reaching it requires a boat across Great Central Lake and a hike up Drinkwater Creek.