Museums and history

Group visit with guided tour

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

Children 2 and under Free. Youth 13 to 18 years are $14.00 at the shoulder season group rate.

Ages & size

Ages not published

Up to 100 children

Duration

Length not published

Year round

Mon, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun

Book by

Not published

Plan this trip

Fieldy handles all communication and booking for you.

What it actually looks like

Photos from BC Forest Discovery Centre's website

Our note

This is the route to take if your group is mixed ages or too big for a school program. Check the price before you commit, because the rates on their groups page still carry 2025 dates while the general admission page has moved on to 2026.

What the children do

Groups of ten or more paying visitors can pre book a group admission rate, which includes a guided tour where one is available. The choices are the Camp Life Tour at 30 minutes, the Foresters Walk at 45 minutes and the Stone Tool Collection Tour at 45 minutes, each followed by the 2.5 km train ride around the property. The rates recorded here are the shoulder season group rates published for 2025, so check them before you budget. Group rates do not apply to the Halloween Train or the Christmas Express.

Follow a guide around the logging camp, the forest trails or the stone tool collection depending on which tour you choose, then board the train for a twenty minute ride around the 100 acres and over the trestle, with a ten minute stop at the lower grounds. Afterwards the group can wander the exhibits, the heritage buildings and the playground.

Good to know

Portable washrooms, an outdoor picnic area and step free access to most of the site, including the trains. Bus parking is not published and there is no stated wet weather fallback, so it is worth a call.

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