Vancouver Island Road Trips + Itineraries

The Best Part of a Vancouver Island Road Trip Is Not Always Where You Are Going Sometimes it is the beach you almost drove past. The trail you noticed from ...

Victoria gets the postcards. Keep driving west. Within an hour or so, city streets begin giving way to forest, rocky coastline and the increasingly wild scenery of southern Vancouver Island. ...

Things to Do in Courtenay, BC: Comox Valley Travel Guide Here’s a Vancouver Island combination that doesn’t seem entirely fair: Ocean. Mountains. Forest. Farms. Rivers. All basically in the same ...

Some Vancouver Island towns make you want to slow down. Cumberland makes you want to get outside. Tucked into the forest of the Comox Valley, this historic community has evolved ...

Mountains behind you. Ocean in front of you. And absolutely no compelling reason to be in a hurry. Welcome to Comox. Sitting on the east coast of Vancouver Island in ...

Things to Do in Port Alberni: Vancouver Island Travel Guide 🌲🚐 Most people heading to Tofino drive through Port Alberni. That’s exactly why you should consider stopping. Sitting between central ...

Things to Do in Nanaimo: Vancouver Island Travel Guide 🌊🌲 A lot of Vancouver Island travellers arrive in Nanaimo with somewhere else already programmed into Google Maps. Tofino. Victoria. Parksville. ...

Drive north from Parksville and something changes. The pace drops. The highway meets the ocean. Mountains appear across the water. And Qualicum Beach feels like somewhere you’re supposed to stop ...

Things to Do in Ucluelet: Vancouver Island Travel Guide 🌊🌲 Tofino gets a lot of attention. Keep driving south. On the other side of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Ucluelet ...

Here’s the thing about Parksville: The ocean practically disappears. At low tide, the water can retreat across an enormous stretch of sand, transforming the shoreline into what feels like one ...

Vancouver Island Road Trip Map: Best Routes + Stops Vancouver Island looks manageable on a map. Then you start exploring it. One highway turns into a coastal road. A planned ...

Things to Do in Campbell River: Vancouver Island Travel Guide 🌲🐋 Some Vancouver Island destinations are about arriving. Campbell River is about what happens when you keep going. Ocean on ...

North Vancouver Island Road Trip: Campbell River to Port Hardy There’s a point on a Vancouver Island road trip where the towns get smaller. The traffic gets lighter. The forest ...

Sometimes the best thing you see on a Vancouver Island road trip wasn’t on the itinerary. An eagle drops onto the shoreline. A seal appears beside the dock. A herd ...