Spend a few hours, a day or overnight in the wilderness. Discover the wild rainforest or soak and relax in the multiple natural hot springs this area has to offer; or view bears, wolves, otters, eagles, swan, ducks, sea lions and ravens, maybe even whales, in their natural environment.
Wildlife Sightseeing Eco Tours
Full day 10-12 hours, all-inclusive with shore barbeque, cheese and wine or all-inclusive overnight packages.
Dala-Kildala Rivers Estuaries Provincial Park
Dala-Kildala Rivers Estuaries Park is located at the east end of Kildala Arm, along the east side of Douglas Channel, approximately 15 km southeast of Kitamat Village. The park protects significant and productive tidal wetlands, river estuaries, fish and wildlife habitat, salmon streams and Grizzly Bear habitat. It has an area of 741 hectares. Access is by boat only. Use Marine Chart #3743 (Douglas Channel) and NTS Map Sheets # 103 H/15 (Kitimat Arm) & 103 H/16 (Kildala Arm).
2 guests: $2200
3 guests: $2300
4 guests: $2400
Additional guest $200 max. 6 on a day trip
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2 guests: $3400
3 guests: $3600
4 guests: $3800
Additional guest $400 max. 5 for overnight trip
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Foch-Gilttoyees Provincial Park and Protected Area
Foch-Gilttoyees Park and Protected Area is located roughly 33 km southwest of Kitimat on the west side of Douglas Channel and is also accessible by boat only.
It is 61,183 hectares of rugged coastal and mountainous terrain, from sea level to alpine tundra. The park is nestled in the Coast Mountain Range on the north side of the Douglas Channel and has a diversity of features including pristine freshwater drainages bordered by steep rocky slopes covered with old-growth forests, numerous waterfalls, tidal estuaries, unique tidal narrows, and a windswept coastline. Snow-covered peaks, glacial tarns, cirque basins, and receding glaciers cap the park. Together with Gitnadoiks River Park and Protected Area to the north, Foch-Gilttoyees completes a contiguous protected area corridor between the Douglas Channel and the Skeena River. Use Marine Chart #3743 (Douglas Channel) and NTS Map Sheets # 103 H/14,15 & 103 I/2,3.
2 guests: $2250
3 guests: $2350
4 guests: $2450
Additional guest $200 max. 7 on a day trip
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2 guests: $3500
3 guests: $3700
4 guests: $3900
Additional guest $400 max. 5 for overnight trip
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Kemano River
Kemano is a settlement situated 75 km (47 mi) southeast of Kitimat in the province of British Columbia in Canada. It was built to service a hydroelectric power station, to provide energy for Alcan to smelt aluminium (aluminum) from its ore. The powerhouse is built 427 m (1,400 ft) inside the base of Mt Dubose in a blasted cavern. It produces 896 MW of power from its eight generators, each of which has a
capacity of 112MW.The plant comprises a 16 km (10 mi) tunnel, the width of a two-lane highway, drilled and blasted through the coastal mountains to carry water to the penstocks of the Kemano powerhouse.
The water plunges 800 m (2,600 ft) to drive the generators. The power transmission lines travel 82 km (51 mi) from Kemano to Kitimat across some of the most rugged mountain territory in British Columbia, along the Kildala Pass, about 1,500 m (5,000 ft) above sea-level.
The first Kemano Project, known as Kemano I, resulted in the flooding of 120,000 acres (490 km2) of the Nechako Reservoir, within Cheslatta territory. This reputedly removed approximately 75% of the flow of the Nechako which is or was an important salmon river. Expansion on the project, known as Kemano II, has been contested in the Canadian courts by members of the Cheslatta Carrier Nation with a group of Elders who have filed a Statement of Claim with the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Kemano itself is a name for a tribal subdivision of the Hanaksiala, part of the Haisla group, and was a community in its own right after many of the coastal tribes withdrew during the influx of colonists post-1780, to remove themselves from the threat of diseases and the alien culture. Kemano Indian Reserve No. 17 is located at the site of the Henaksiala village, though most Haisla in the region today live at Kitimaat Village, near Kitimat. The company town of Kemano was originally built in the 1950s and was home to a thriving small community, featuring a guesthouse, a shop which sold everything from candy to guns to socks to hats, a golf course and a church. It eventually closed its doors as a community in 2000, the residents were moved out, and the majority of houses (including the school) were burnt down as a training exercise for selected fire departments from all of BC. The plant still exists and is operational on a shift system.
We offer full guided day trips and 1 – 3 days guided Ocean & River fishing expeditions out of Kitimat, these are all inclusive adventure packages to the Kemano River.
2 guests: $2400
3 guests: $2500
4 guests: $2600
Additional guest $200 max. 7 on a day trip
OVERNIGHT ALL INCLUSIVE TRIP
2 guests: $3800
3 guests: $4000
4 guests: $4200
Additional guest $400 max. 6 for overnight trip
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Kitlope Provincial Park
At 317,000 hectares the Kitlope Valley is the largest intact coastal temperate rainforest in the world, located in an isolated region of northwestern BC, south of Kitimat. One must arrive by boat, sailing or motoring from the ocean into the Gardner Canal, and then anchoring in the Kitlope River estuary, just outside the park.
Unlike many parks that protect only part of an ecosystem, the Kitlope is a complete primary watershed from its glacier peaks to the ocean floor. Hidden in an isolated area of northwestern British Columbia, the rugged terrain of the Kitlope is cloaked in old growth trees, many of which are up to 800 years old and 10 feet in diameter. Species in the area include bald eagles, peregrine falcons, mountain goats, black bears and grizzly bears. The rivers of the Kitlope hold large spawning runs of all five Pacific salmon species.
2 guests: $2700
3 guests: $2800
4 guests: $2900
Additional guest $200 max. 6 on a day trip
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2 guests: $4400
3 guests: $4600
4 guests: $4800
Additional guest $400 max. 5 for overnight trip
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Natural Hot Springs Tours
Full day 10-12 hours, all-inclusive with shore barbeque, cheese and wine or all-inclusive overnight packages.
Weewanie Hot Springs Provincial Park
Weewanie Hot Springs Park is located on the east side of Devastation Channel in an area of 35 hectares approximately 38 km south of Kitimat. It is situated in a semi-sheltered bay with a hot spring and bath house for soaking, and is accessible by boat only. The park is used by recreational and commercial boaters for hot springs soaking, anchorage and camping. Facilities also include a pit toilet, picnic area, campsite and one mooring buoy in the bay.
For access directions use Marine Chart #3743 (Douglas Channel) and NTS Map Sheet # 103 H/10 (Devastation Channel).
Special Feature: A bathhouse is provided so that park visitors may enjoy soaking in the hot springs water. The hot springs water comes out of the ground on the hillside above the bath house at a flow rate of about 11.8 litres per minute. Water temperature at the source is about 44.7 degrees Celsius and about 38.6 degrees Celsius in the bath house. The hot springs water is not suitable for drinking.
History and Heritage: Weewanie Hot Springs Park is within the traditional territory of the Haisla First Nation. The bay was used in the past for logging. Remains of the old log landing site, logging road and an old steam donkey engine can be found on shore at the end of the bay. The bath house building was built in 1992 by a group of volunteers. Prior to being designated as a Provincial Park in 2004, Weewanie Hot Springs was a BC Forest Service Recreation Site maintained by the Kalum Forest District out of Terrace.
2 guests: $2000
3 guests: $2100
4 guests: $2200
Additional guest $200 max. 7 on a day trip
OVERNIGHT ALL INCLUSIVE TRIP
2 guests: $3000
3 guests: $3200
4 guests: $3400
Additional guest $400 max. 6 for overnight trip
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Bishop Bay Hot Springs – Monkey Beach Conservancy
Bishop Bay-Monkey Beach Conservancy has an area of 3,374 hectares and protects one of the most popular marine hot springs and boat anchorage site along the Inside Passage. It is located about 25 km east of Hartley Bay and 75 km south of Kitimat and is only accessible by boat or floatplane. Local boaters, as well as those going to or coming from Alaska, commonly stop at Bishop Bay for hot springs soaking, safe anchorage, picnics and camping. This very popular recreation site includes a boat dock and ramp, boardwalk, tent platforms, pit toilet, and bath house for soaking. The Monkey Beach area also protects a number of attractive small beaches, camping spots, important intertidal habitats and traditional shellfish harvesting areas by local First Nations.
Special Feature: A bath house is provided so that park visitors may enjoy soaking in the warm and odourless hot springs water. The hot springs water comes out of the ground from a crevice in the granodiorite bedrock beside the bath house. It flows out at a rate of about 32.4 litres per minute. Water temperature at the source is about 41.3 degrees Celsius and about 38.8 degrees Celsius in the bath house.
Cultural Heritage: The conservancy is in the asserted traditional territories of the Haisla, Gitga’at and Gitxaala First Nations. The conservancy contains five known archaeological sites (pre-contact shell middens, plank house depressions, faded pictographs) and has historically been used for the traditional harvest of shellfish and trapping by local First Nations. Monkey Beach got its name from legendary sightings of monkey-like creatures (Sasquatch) by local First Nations.
Conservation: The conservancy protects an area of cultural and historical value to the local First Nations as well as high recreational use and old-growth forests of red cedar and hemlock, portions of small coastal streams and coastal wildlife habitat that includes the marine foreshore and intertidal areas.
Wildlife: Bears, wolves, and sometimes deer can be seen along the shoreline. Humpback Whales, Killer Whales, Dall’s Porpoises, Pacific White-Sided Dolphins, Sea Lions and Harbour Seals can also be seen in the adjacent marine waters. Kermode Bears are commonly seen on Gribbell Island, to the west of the conservancy.
2 guests: $2200
3 guests: $2300
4 guests: $2400
Additional guest $200 max. 7 on a day trip
OVERNIGHT ALL INCLUSIVE TRIP
2 guests: $3400
3 guests: $3600
4 guests: $3800
Additional guest $400 max. 6 for overnight trip
Make ReservationAll prices as per above. Plus 5% GST.