West Coast Trail

The West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island is 47 miles of the most rugged, challenging, and beautiful coastal hiking on Earth. You'll climb 100-foot ladders bolted to cliffs, cross gorges on cable cars, ford rivers at low tide, and hike along beaches with sea stacks and crashing waves. This is technical backpacking where timing, tides, and weather matter. Parks Canada caps permits (apply early), the cost is high, and you need maturity to handle it. But this is world-class adventure - an international expedition that combines difficulty, beauty, and challenge. This is the trip for senior crews graduating, looking for one last epic adventure before college.