Photo: BC Parks Main Lake Provincial Park
BC Parks inside Main Lake Parkwhat to expect
Main Lake Park on Quadra Island, encompasses six lakes and protects a biologically diverse freshwater system that includes more than 72 bird species and 234 plant species. The park offers significant wilderness recreation opportunities, including wilderness camping, canoeing, kayaking and hiking. Visitors to the park can see a variety of wildlife, including wolves, cougars, owls, bald eagles, hawks, osprey, peregrine falcons and wintering swans. The geography of park is exceptional. It offers spectacular physical features such as narrow channels, limestone sinkholes, waterfalls and the close proximity of marine and fresh water ecosystems. The Main Lake Chain of interconnected lakes forms the largest freshwater waterway in the Gulf and Discovery Islands. Main Lake, Village Bay Lake and Min…
Description: BC Parks
the basics
The campsites
Things to do nearby
Within 5 km — trails, viewpoints, beaches, boat launches you can reach without packing up camp.
- Homewood Bluff
What's around
Main Lake Provincial Park plus 1 named place to see and do nearby — trails, beaches, viewpoints, water, and services.
Water + services
- Nearest dump station — Sanistation
- Nearest potable water
what to bring
This list adapts to Main Lake Provincial Park. no showers means a travel towel;
If Main Lake Provincial Park is full
Other places to stay within 25 km.
- Surge Narrows Lodge / Discovery Islands Lodge
- Heriot Bay Inn & Marina
- Brown's Bay Resort
- Brown's Bay Resort
- We Wai Kai
- We-Wai-Kai Camp Site
- Elk Bay
- Gorge Harbour Marina Resort
Plus 17 user-tagged dispersed sites on OpenStreetMap — often genuine wild-pitches; check access rights before relying on one.