Activities
Situated in the village of Ucluelet near Tofino on Vancouver Island, the Canadian Princess Resort is a great home base to explore the splendours of Vancouver Island.
Take a Wildlife Nature Cruise through the Broken Group Islands, part of the Pacific Rim National Park and enjoy some wildlife viewing. A trip to Canadian Princess Vancouver Island Resort isn’t complete without a visit to world-famous Long Beach, only minutes away.
The towns of Ucluelet and Tofino offer a wide variety of unique stores, craft shops and art galleries and are the perfect place to explore after your fishing adventure.
Explore the Wild Pacific Coast
Ucluelet-Long Beach as well as the Pacific Rim National Park are both great places to explore both on foot and by car. With a variety of walking and hiking trails, outdoor adventures and shops and galleries, there’s something of everyone.
Long Beach Golf Course
9 hole · par 36 · 3300 yards
rating: 70.5 · slope: 116
This Vancouver Island golf course is scenically situated between Ucluelet and Tofino. Surrounded by the ancient rainforest of Clayoquot Sound to the north and Barkley Sound to the south, the course offers challenging holes set against a beautiful backdrop.
Pacific Rim National Park is famous for its variety of beaches. Some are covered with black lava-rock formations, some, like world-famous Long Beach, are covered in a silky sand and stretch for miles. Changing tides create new beachcombing opportunities everyday. For more adventurous people, there are opportunities to surf at Long Beach and other beaches. Several outfitters in the area rent equipment and provide lessons.
While at Long Beach, make sure to visit the Interpretive Centre and the Wickaninnish Restaurant. Canadian Princess Resort runs a complimentary shuttle between the resort the restaurant.
The Wild Pacific Trail is a network of paths around Ucluelet tracing the rugged shoreline offering panoramic views of the Broken Group Islands. The trail winds through ancient rainforests, with giant windswept trees, ferns, mosses, nurse logs as well as birds and other forest creatures.
Cathedral Grove on Highway 4 (20 km south of Port Alberni) is also a great place to stop on your way up to Canadian Princess and experience the power of nature. The grove is home to trees over 800 years old and some that are more than 30 feet across.
