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Forest Heritage: Fallers, Flunkies & Families

BC Forest Discovery Centre3 hr 25 min by bus · 48.9 km
✓ Fits your group
A long dark red wooden building with FOREST DISCOVERY CENTRE painted along the front, seen from above, with a paved car park and tall evergreens behind it.
Cost
$10 a child
$160 for 16 children
Ages & size
Grades 1 to 3
Up to 30 children
Duration
1.5 hours
May, Jun, Sep
Days not published
Book by
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What it actually looks like

Photos from BC Forest Discovery Centre's website
Our note
This one runs outdoors and goes ahead in rain, so pack for weather. There is a playground and a picnic area, so it is easy to add lunch and stay on after the ninety minutes are up.

What the children do

A guided visit to the heritage logging camp for younger classes, focused on what camp community life was like in the early to mid twentieth century. The program includes a ride on the narrow gauge train and access to the picnic area, playground, exhibits, heritage buildings and forest trails. Price is per student and GST is added on top.

Walk around the old logging camp, go inside the bunkhouses, the 1905 schoolhouse, the Westholme Post Office and the blacksmith shop, and hear how the people who lived there worked. Then ride the train for about twenty minutes right around the property and over the trestle, with a ten minute stop at the lower grounds.

Good to know

Washrooms are portable toilets on site, and lunch is an outdoor picnic area on the lower grounds. Bus parking and how many adults have to come are not published, so ask when you book.

Sources disagree. Their web page and their printed program brochure give two different email addresses for the same education coordinator. If one bounces, try the other, or ring the office. We use the one from their tours page.
Sources disagree. Their brochure splits the forest programs into two tight grade bands while their web page says the same programs suit kindergarten right up to grade seven. If your class sits outside the narrow bands, say so when you book and ask whether they will adapt it.
Sources disagree. Their brochure says school programs run in May, June and September, while their web page says they run right through the season from Easter to Thanksgiving. Ask for the month you want and see what they say.
Washrooms
Wheelchair accessible portable toilets are on-site whenever the museum is open to the public.
Lunch space
Many of our visitors bring a picnic lunch to enjoy a pleasant break in the picnic area on our lower grounds during their visit. Visitors may leave and re-enter the site.
Rain backup
Needs confirmation
Strollers
Needs confirmation
Wheelchair access
Most main areas of the site are wheelchair accessible, including the main entrance and exhibit hall, the gas and steam trains, antique vehicle building, most heritage buildings, and the main walking trails. A few of the heritage buildings as well as the speeder are not wheel chair accessible at this time.
Bus parking
Designated parking stalls are available for people with mobility disabilities.
Nearby park
Needs confirmation
Restrictions
Only Certified Guide & Service dogs are permitted in our food service areas and on board our trains.. Group rates do not apply for the Halloween Train or the Christmas Express

Getting there

2892 Drinkwater Road, Duncan, BC V9L 6C2

On foot
10 hr 38 min
too far with this group
By bus
3 hr 25 min
includes a 9 min wait
Driving
1 hr 36 min

The dark pin is Victoria.

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Details checked on 2026-09-03 against the venue’s own pages. Something wrong? , it takes one tap. · Venue page · (250) 715-1113