Popular Day Hikes: Vancouver Island — Revised & Updated

Featuring a fresh design and the most current route updates, Popular Day Hikes is a series of bestselling books written for visitors and locals looking to hike scenic trails from well-established staging areas.

This unique and colourful guidebook sorts through all of the various possibilities and selects for the reader the very best day hikes on Vancouver Island, with locations throughout the region, including:

Carmanah Walbran
Matheson Lake to Roche Cove
Mount Finlayson
Gowlland Tod Park Jocelyn Peak Loop
Skutz Falls Loop
Stocking Lake and Heart Lake
Haslam Trail to Timberland Lake
Top Bridge and Englishman River
Mount Arrowsmith
The Lakes of Forbidden Plateau

With hikes ranging from 6 km to 25 km and from easy to challenging, these routes are all accessible from generally reliable roads. In addition, each hike is accompanied by a clear, colourful map, step by step directions and full-colour photographs.


Each hike includes:

detailed directions to trailheads
colour maps and photographs
seasonal information
round-trip distances
trail commentary
difficulty ratings