Butter Pot Provincial Park, Provincial park in Avalon Peninsula, Canada

Butter Pot Provincial Park covers 2,833 hectares on the Avalon Peninsula, 36 km southwest of St. John's along the Trans-Canada Highway. Its terrain takes in boreal forest of black spruce and balsam fir, bogs, heaths and ponds, the largest being Big Otter Pond. Butter Pot Hill, a rounded rocky hill of 303 m on the western side, gives the park its name and serves as the main lookout.

Butter Pot Provincial Park was created in 1958 and is managed by the Department of Environment and Conservation. A major wildfire in 1889 destroyed the plant life and created the park's extensive barrens. In September 2012, Hurricane Leslie damaged roads, trails and facilities, forcing the park to close early for the season.

The park's name comes from Butter Pot Hill, the 303 m rounded hill inside its boundary. The 1889 wildfire that burned the area's plant life left the open barrens visitors walk through today, and the hill remains the main lookout point over the Avalon Peninsula terrain.

The park offers campsites with fire pits and picnic tables scattered throughout the grounds, and you can swim in designated areas at several ponds. Trails are clearly marked and accessible to visitors of different abilities.

The glacial erratics along the trails are mostly quartz and feldspar boulders, carried here by ice and left scattered across the terrain. Look for them where the trail crosses open barrens rather than dense forest.