About Brooks Peninsula: Brooks Peninsula exemplifies the untamed, wild nature of the outer Vancouver Island coast. The various features of this region may be found elsewhere in British Columbia, but rarely...

About Kyuquot Sound: Kyuquot is the smallest of the five main sounds on the west coast of Vancouver Island, but certainly one of the prettiest and most interesting. Like most areas...

About South Clayoquot Sound: The paved highway to the West Coast ends at Tofino, a town with a unique mix of accessibility and wild geography which has helped it evolve from...

About South Clayoquot Sound: The paved highway to the West Coast ends at Tofino, a town with a unique mix of accessibility and wild geography which has helped it evolve from...

About the Broken Group: Forty years ago when kayaking was just beginning to become popular, the Broken Group Islands became known as the quintessential West Coast wilderness experience thanks to the...

About the West Coast Trail: Vancouver Island’s West Coast is renowned for the rugged scenery, and the West Coast Trail is a large part of the reason why. Protected within the...

About the West Coast Trail: The West Coast Trail is a 78-km wilderness corridor along an exposed stretch of coast known for its rugged inaccessibility, storms and wild rainforests. Improvements to...

About Juan de Fuca: This mapsheet covers two startling different worlds: the interior of southwestern Vancouver Island and the southwestern Vancouver Island coast. The two are not easily interchangeable, even though...

About this region: Sooke has been marketing itself as an alternative to Tofino (using the name “Wild Coast” to describe the region), and in many ways the strategy is working as...