The best thing about being on vacation or exploring the backcountry is the opportunity to stay in places that are completely divorced from your day to day life. Vancouver Island in British Columbia has an abundance of unique out of the way accommodations, who are helping to make a difference with their environmental sustainability initiatives. From remote floating cabins to five-star eco-friendly wilderness resorts - The Island has it all!
1. Sonora Resort
The Senora Resort is located within British Columbia's cluster of the Discovery Islands. The resort excels at presenting and instilling a love for what is one of North America's most sensationally beautiful natural environments. All the while they are striving and managing to have a minimal impact on the environment itself.
2. Paddlers' Inn
Awarded a gold rating from Green Tourism Canada, these cabins, floating in the remote Broughton Archipelago of islands, are ideal for multi-day kayak trips and adventurers looking for a true escape. The primary purpose of Paddlers' Inn is to provide people with safe and comfortable access to experiences in a wilderness environment, so that the connection between nature and self is nourished, hopefully leading to individual fulfillment, and a renewed commitment to environmental stewardship.
3. Clayoquot Wilderness Resort
This luxury lodge with safari style glamping tents is situated on a remote section of the Vancouver Island coast near Tofino. A balance of yin and yang, the resort is wild and intimately connected to nature yet offers a refined way of enjoying, appreciating and respecting this unique environment. Announced as World's Most Sustainable Hotel at the 2018 World Boutique Hotel Awards, they have a commitment to the education of guests and media from all over the world - in the value of the biosphere, the salmon forest eco-system, green energy, wild food systems, eating locally, microeconomics, and so much more.
4. Wickaninnish Inn
The Wickaninnish Inn, perched on the rocks of the dramatic Pacific Rim National Park coastline, is eco-tourism at its most luxurious. With 270 degree views of the surrounding waters, it's farm/forest/ocean to table restaurant is the perfect location for appreciating the scenery and studying the unique habitat. In the winter the rooms, complete with picture windows and fireplaces, provide a wonderful sanctuary for partaking in the local pastime of storm watching.
5. Free Spirit Spheres
The quirky and truly unique spherical accommodations bring a whole new realism to your childhood dream of living in a treehouse. It's glamping, but not as you know it. Suspended in trees of the coastal rainforest this resort seeks to be in harmony with and to fully respect its surrounding habitat. Forest preservation is really important to them!
For more information and inspiration on where to visit on Vancouver Island, make sure you check out our guide to 5 Days in Tofino and the Wild Pacific Coast.
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