Kayak camping, tides & launches: BC North & Central Coast, Haida Gwaii
BC North & Central Coast, Haida Gwaii: Coastal paddling with 162 campsites, 64 boat launches and 135 tide stations, plus slack-water times for 5 tidal current stations. See them on the map, check today's tides and wind, or, with a Coast Map Pass, download the whole region (121 MB) to your phone for trips without signal.
162campsites
64boat launches
135tide stations
5current stations
121 MBoffline download
Campsites
From OpenStreetMap, coloured on the map by what you need before staying. 46 mention boat, canoe or kayak access (馃浂). Always confirm fees, permits and closures with the operator.
Fee or reservation (19)
- Agate Beach Campground 馃浂
- Bailey Bridge Cabins & Campsites
- Ferry Island Campground 馃浂
- Furlong Bay Campground
- Group Campground
- Haida Gwaii Glamping
- Haydn Turner Campground
- Hekate鈥檚 Retreat RV Site & Camping
- Hiellen Village Campsite
- Hirsch Creek Park Campground
- Kasiks Camping
- Kleanza Creek Provincial Campground
- Misty Meadows Provincial Campground
- Misty Meadows Tentsite
- Prudhomme Lake Campground
- Radley Park Campground
- Riverside Municipal Campground
- Sunset RV Park and Campground
- Tyhee Lake Provincial Park Campground
Free or backcountry (103)
- Arthur Island (BCMT) 馃浂
- Baker Point Aristazabal Island (BCMT) 馃浂
- Banks Island north 1 (BCMT) 馃浂
- Blackney Island inside (BCMT) 馃浂
- Blunden Harbour (BCMT) 馃浂
- Burnett Bay North (BCMT)
- Calamity Bay (BCMT)
- Calm Day Pocket (BCMT)
- Cameron Cove (BCMT)
- Campania Island central (BCMT) 馃浂
- Campania Island west (BCMT) 馃浂
- Campania Mount Pender (BCMT) 馃浂
- Campbell Lagoon
- Cape George (BCMT)
- Cape Mark (BCMT)
- Cape Swain east (BCMT)
- Cessford Islands (BCMT) 馃浂
- Charley Islands inside (BCMT) 馃浂
- Chic Chic Bay (BCMT)
- Chist Creek Recreation Site
- Cobblesand Beach (BCMT) 馃浂
- Cockle Bay (BCMT)
- Cree Point (BCMT)
- Cultus Sound (BCMT)
- Dallas Island (BCMT) 馃浂
- Denniston Point east (BCMT)
- Denniston Point west (BCMT)
- Dublin Point north (BCMT)
- Dundas Islet SE 馃浂
- Dyer Cove (BCMT)
- Edna Islands North (BCMT) 馃浂
- Edwards Point Bay (BCMT)
- Extended Point (BCMT)
- Gnarled Islands (BCMT) 馃浂
- Goldstream Harbour (BCMT)
- Grey Bay Campsite
- Grief Bay (BCMT)
- Hankin Point (BCMT)
- Hart Farm Recreation Site
- Higgins Passage west (BCMT)
- Hoop Bay North (BCMT)
- Horseshoe Beach (BCMT) 馃浂
- Indian Cove (BCMT)
- Island 42 (BCMT) 馃浂
- Islet 48 Louise Channel (BCMT)
- Islet 55 Tribal Group (BCMT)
- Jennie Islet inside (BCMT)
- Kagan Bay Campsite
- Kelp Head south (BCMT)
- Kent Island (BCMT) 馃浂
- Kent Island 2 (BCMT) 馃浂
- Kirkendale Island (BCMT) 馃浂
- Lucy Islands (BCMT) 馃浂
- McMullin Group north (BCMT)
- Miles Inlet BC Marine Trail Campsite 馃浂
- Miles Island (BCMT) 馃浂
- Milne Island (BCMT) 馃浂
- Monk Bay (BCMT)
- Moresby Camp Recreation Site
- Morice Lake Campground
- Mosquito Lake Campsite
- Mosquito Lake Recreation Site
- Normansell Islands (BCMT) 馃浂
- North Beach Calvert Island (BCMT) 馃浂
- ONeil Islet inside (BCMT)
- Open Bight (BCMT)
- Open Bight Beach Camp 馃浂
- Open Bight south (BCMT)
- Owen Flats 'A'
- Poplar Lake Recreation Site
- Porcher East
- Price Island northwest (BCMT) 馃浂
- Rachel Islands BCMT site & shelter 馃浂
- Rays Island west 馃浂
- Red Sand Lake Recreation Site
- Red Sand Operations Trail Recreation Site
- Redsands Beach (BCMT) 馃浂
- Refuge Bay (BCMT)
- Roar Islets
- Robinson Pass Low Tide 馃浂
- Sand Spit (BCMT)
- Seaforth Channel (BCMT)
- Seaforth Channel west (BCMT)
- Serpent Islands (BCMT) 馃浂
- Shelter Bay (BCMT) 馃浂
- Silverthorne Lake
- Skull Cove BC Marine Trail Campsite 馃浂
- Solander Point north (BCMT)
- Sorrow Islands (BCMT) 馃浂
- Soulsby Camp (BCMT)
- South Beach Calvert Island (BCMT) 馃浂
- Squally Channel (BCMT) 馃浂
- Steep Beach (BCMT) 馃浂
- Stewart Passage (BCMT)
- Table Island (BCMT) 馃浂
- Terror Point (BCMT)
- Watch Island north (BCMT) 馃浂
- Welcome Harbor (BCMT)
- Wilkie Point (BCMT)
- Wolf Beach Calvert Island (BCMT) 馃浂
- Wurtele Island central (BCMT) 馃浂
- Wurtele Island east (BCMT) 馃浂
- Yaaklele Entrance (BCMT)
Fees not recorded (check locally) (5)
- Kalum Lake Campsite
- Morice-Klinger Trails
- Radley Park
- RCMP Campground
- Upper Kitimat River Recreation Site
Tide stations
Highs and lows for the next year, the 24-hour tide curve, wind and the marine forecast.
- Adams Harbour
- Addenbroke Island
- Aero Trading
- Alison Sound
- Armentieres Channel
- Atli Inlet
- Barnard Harbour
- Beauchemin Channel
- Belize Inlet
- Bella Bella
- Bella Coola
- Block Islands
- Bonilla Island
- Borrowman Bay
- Boswell Inlet
- Brundige Inlet
- Butedale
- Cann Inlet
- Cape Ball
- Cape St. James
- Carpenter Bay
- Casey Cove
- Claxton
- Clear Passage
- Copper Islands
- Daajing Giids
- Dawson Harbour
- Dinan Bay
- Draney Inlet
- Egeria Bay
- Egg Island
- Fairview Terminal
- Forit Bay
- Fox Islands
- Frederick Sound
- Gerald Point
- Gillen Harbour
- Goose Island
- Gordon Islands
- Gosling Island
- Griffin Passage
- Griffith Harbour
- Hartley Bay
- Haysport
- Heater Harbour
- Henslung Cove
- Higgins Passage
- High Island
- Hudson Bay Passage
- Humpback Bay
- Hunger Harbour
- Hunt Inlet
- Inverness
- Joassa Channel
- Johnson Point
- Juskatla Inlet
- Kemano Bay
- Khyex River
- Kimsquit Channel
- Kitimat
- Kitkatla
- Klemtu
- Kumeon Bay
- Kwinitsa River
- Kynumpt Harbour
- Labouchere Channel East
- Langara Point
- Larsen Island
- Larso Bay
- Lawyer Islands
- Lax Kw'alaams
- Leopold Island
- Leroy Bay
- Louise Island
- Lowe Inlet
- Luke Passage
- Marvin Island
- Masset
- McCoy Cove
- McKenney Isl.
- McPherson Point
- Mereworth Sound
- Meyers Narrows
- Milne Island
- Moffatt Islands
- Moore Islands
- Morse Basin
- Mudge Inlet
- Namu
- Nesto Inlet
- Nugent Sound
- Ocean Falls
- Oswald Bay
- Pacofi Bay
- Patterson Inlet
- Peel Inlet
- Pembina Terminal
- Porpoise Channel East
- Port Blackney
- Port Clements
- Port Edward
- Port Louis
- Price Island
- Prince Rupert
- Prince Rupert Grain
- Prince Rupert RoRo
- Pruth Bay
- Qlawdzeet Anchorage
- Ramsay Island
- Refuge Bay
- Rose Harbour
- Sandspit Marina
- Seabreeze Point
- Seal Cove
- Security Cove
- Sedgwick Bay
- Shields Bay
- Shingle Bay
- Smith Inlet
- Smithers Island
- Spider Island
- Starfish Island
- Stryker Island
- Thompson Bay
- Tlell
- Tom Bay
- Trail Bay
- Treadwell Bay
- Trounce Inlet
- Trounce Inlet North
- Troup Passage
- Wadhams
- Wainwright Basin
- Welcome Harbour
- Wiah Point
Tidal currents and slack water
Boat launches
- Andesite Boat Launch
- Exchamsiks River Boat Launch
- Exstew River Boat Launch
- Fisherman's Memorial Park Boat Launch
- Kasiks River Boat Launch
- Kitsumkaylum Boat Launch
- Kwinitsa Creek Boat Launch
- Kwinitsa East Boat launch
- Port Edward Boat Launch
- Prudhomme Lake Boat Launch
- Rainbow Lake Boat Launch
- Rio Tinto boat launch
- Rushbrook Harbour Boat Launch
- Snowbound Creek Boat Launch
- Tyee Boat Launch
- Work Channel Main Boat Launch
Plus 48 unnamed launches on the map.
Marine forecast areas
Central Coast from McInnes Island to Pine Island 路 Dixon Entrance East 路 Dixon Entrance West 路 Douglas Channel 路 Hecate Strait 路 Queen Charlotte Strait 路 West Coast Haida Gwaii
Where to see sea otters
- Near Adams Harbour 路 7 sightings
- Near Cobblesand Beach (BCMT) 路 6 sightings
- Near Miles Island (BCMT) 路 4 sightings
Download for GPS and other map apps
162 campsites and 94 boat launches as GPX (GPS units, Gaia GPS, OsmAnd) or KML (Google Earth, Google My Maps).