Nature and outdoors

Specialty Program, one activity for the week

Strathcona Park Lodge and Outdoor Education Centre15 hr 40 min by bus · 232.7 km

✓ Fits your group

A long lake with small treed islands in it, ringed by forested mountains under low cloud.

Cost

Price not published

Needs confirmation

Ages & size

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Duration

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Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Sep, Oct, Nov

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Plan this trip

Fieldy handles all communication and booking for you.

What it actually looks like

Photos from Strathcona Park Lodge and Outdoor Education Centre's website

Our note

These are expedition weeks for young people who are already fit and comfortable outdoors. Some routes have no outhouses at all. Ask which trips they can actually run on your dates, because the choice moves with water levels and the time of year.

What the children do

A week immersed in a single activity, with 2 to 3 nights camping out. The choices published for 2026 are an introductory or intermediate hike, the Brewster Lakes and Sayward Forest canoe portage route, ocean canoeing from Mutchalat Inlet, sea kayaking in Nootka Sound, whitewater kayaking or canoeing on the Campbell or Gold River, rock climbing at Crest Creek Crags, wilderness skills, mountain biking, a rock and cave combination, and a Buttle Lake canoe trip. Two lodge instructors are provided for every 10 students and a teacher or chaperone is optional.

Learn one skill properly and then travel with it. Depending on the choice they paddle a sea kayak for two to six hours at a stretch, portage a canoe up to 2 km, rappel down a 20 metre rock face, crawl through caves, or ride a mountain bike for three to six hours a day, sleeping under a tarp for two or three nights.

Good to know

Gear, meals and special diets are all handled by the lodge. Camping out means no washrooms on some nights, and nothing is published about step free access or bus parking.

Sources disagree. Two of their pages give different addresses for the person who books school programs. If one bounces, try the other, or ring the lodge. We use the one from their school programs page.

Washrooms

Our bathrooms are gender inclusive, our bathing spaces are private.

Lunch space

The Whale Room restaurant serves three meals per day at set times, and meals are included in the program price.

Rain backup

Needs confirmation

Strollers

Needs confirmation

Wheelchair access

Needs confirmation

Bus parking

Needs confirmation

Nearby park

Our Lodge is located 5 km before the Buttle Lake entrance to Strathcona Provincial Park.

Restrictions

All participants must sign a waiver and release agreement prior to taking part in an SPL experience or activity.. Minor participants (children 18 and under) must have an Acknowledgment of Risks and Consent Form completed and signed by a parent or guardian.. There is no cellphone reception on property and we do not have internet access for youth while they are here.. Your arrival time should be between 1:00pm - 2:30pm. Please do not arrive early.. Medical forms, youth consent forms, rooming list and group list are required back two weeks before the program start date.

Getting there

41040 Gold River Hwy P.O. Box 2160, Campbell River, BC Canada, V9W 5C5

On foot

50 hr 35 min

too far with this group

By bus

15 hr 40 min

includes a 9 min wait

Driving

7 hr 20 min

The dark pin is Victoria.

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Details checked on 2026-09-10 against the venue’s own pages. Something wrong? , it takes one tap. · Venue page · 1-250-286-3122