Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge on Vancouver Island celebrates a quarter-century with a range of new helicopter experiences in time for the 2025 season.
The 2025 season kicks off on May 22, promising five months of generously inclusive luxury and incredible adventures for guests in nature’s own playground, where black bears forage shoreside, whales, seals and sea otters enjoy the region’s network of waterways and bald eagles soar overhead.
The Experiences Guide has been updated to time with the 2025 season and offers a full introduction to the range of signature, optional and bespoke experiences on offer for guests at Clayoquot.
The cold-water immersion mindfulness experience, which takes place in the Bedwell River, has been reformatted as a one-hour sunrise ‘glacial plunge’ due to popular demand and is included on guest itineraries as a signature well-being experience.
New on the heli experiences menu (at an additional cost) are two new alpine adventures, plus four new coastal-themed itineraries, while a 15-minute one-way heli pickup from the Ursus Valley hike is called the River Run.
The new Alpine Scenic heli tour is a 30-minute taster flight, offering a wonderful aerial perspective of the Vancouver Island wilderness. Best enjoyed at sunset, the tour lifts off for an exhilarating flight through valleys and soaring over the Mount Mariner Glacier with views spanning across Strathcona Provincial Park.
Also in the mountains, the new Lake Day heli experience whisks guests away to a remote lake deep in the wilderness. Guests enjoy the ultimate picnic spread, plus hiking and aquatic sports to be tailored to preference. The Lake Day adventure is ideal for a family or friends travelling together.
Heading to the coast and a chance for incredible encounters with the marine landscape and its wildlife, the new heli itineraries include Coastal Scenic, a 30-minute taster exploring Vancouver Island’s ruggedly beautiful ocean coastlines; Island Picnic, a half-day tour exploring the wild islands dotted around the ocean and spotting wildlife; and Sea Caves, during which guests will fly north to discover remote sea caves, explore inside the caves, finding sheer rockfaces, tidal pools and cool pebbled beaches.
Also look out for Walk the Wild Side, a flight to wild Vargas Island and a hike following an 11km trail along a cultural route of the First Nations Ahousaht people who have gathered medicinal plants and seasonal foods over centuries.