Haida Gwaii Parks and Places

The Sleeping Beauty Trail is the best known rainforest trail in an area of many trails. The trail is very vertical with plenty of opportunity for stair climbing, rope climbing and depending on the seasons, trekking though mud and navigating around wash-outs.

Honna Road Forestry Service Road

Queen Charlotte City

A massive 1470 square km wilderness park which includes evidence of a deep spiritual history of the Haida people throughout the park. As, far back as 10,000 years ago, the land of Gwaii Haanas was home to the Haida people.

Sandspit

Gore Brook Trail, one of the many community trails in the Village of Queen Charlotte, is a moderate 1.6 kilometer hike through lush ferns, mosses and cedar trees.

Top of 9th Street

Queen Charlotte

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The Simpson Tower Trail is a 1.7km (one-way) out and back route in the Delkatla Nature Sanctuary. It runs parallel to Cemetery Road for much of its length.

Cemetery Rd

Masset, BC

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The 4 Corners Trail, located within Naikoon Provincial Park, was originally an old settler wagon road established to access parcels of land and homesteads. Today, it is mossy and overgrown, but the early part of the trail makes for a nice hike.

Tow Hill Rd

Masset, BC

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Low tides empty the bay exposing a pebbled, sandy beach with seagulls soaring above, Bald Eagles nesting in the nearby trees and the winds of nature surrounding you.

School Road

Sandspit

Jungle Beach has plenty of parking, a wooden picnic shelter, pit toilets and some personality. The Black Bear marks the pull out area of the park when driving along Hwy 16.

Highway 16

Skidegate

short 15 minute trail located on Moresby Island near Sandspit explores the forests along the coastline of the island navigating around deadfall and through large trees. The wooded route leads to a look-out peering over Skidegate Inlet with rock cliffs and pulsating surge channels below.

Sandspit

Many arrive at Agate Beach to find agate rock. A hard task for most is to pick an agate rock out from the millions of beautiful coloured rocks spilled over the beach. Agate colour varies too - from a clear-white, to yellowish-amber, greens and red.

Tow Hill Road

Masset

Crabapple Creek Trail is located at the west end of 2nd Avenue at the cul-de-sac.

2nd Ave

Queen Charlotte

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A wilderness trail following a creek through wet, moist forests, passing by thick clumps of ferns and piles of deadfall. The trail is a short, easy grade trail that leads to the coastline and Secret Cove.

School Road

Sandspit

Located along Highway 16, immediately adjacent the Onward Point Lookout parking lot, spy the trailhead by hydro pole 79.

Highway 16

Sandspit, BC

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A Haida Gwaii park includes sandy beaches, rolling sand dunes, forested old growth hiking trails, wetlands, bogs, rock cliffs, marine tidal pools, viewing look-outs, historical shipwrecks, forests populated with wildlife.

Highway 16

Tlell

A small recreational site tucked away along some logging roads west of Queen Charlotte City on Graham Island. The park area opens up to a large bay with pebbled, sandy beaches looking out onto the large, Lina and smaller, Meyer Island.

Honna Road

Queen Charlotte City

A 10.2 kilometer loop trail providing nice views of Hecate Strait and Skidegate Inlet.

Airport Rd

Sandspit

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Haida Gwaii Parks and Places

Sleeping Beauty Hiking Trail

Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve

Gore Brook Trail

Simpson Tower Trail

4 Corners Trail

Copper Bay, Moresby Island

Jungle Beach

Onward Point Trail, Moresby Island

Agate Beach, Naikoon Provincial Park

Crabapple Creek Trail

Secret Cove Trail, Moresby Island

Around the Pond Trail

Naikoon Provincial Park

Kagan Bay

Spit Walk Trail

Parks & Trails Map