CLAYOQUOT WILDERNESS RESORTS — Bedwell River Outpost

About the Resort

Clayoquot Wilderness Resort promises discriminating travelers an ultra-luxurious eco-destination, four-star accommodations, other- worldly coastal cuisine, super natural adventure, and some of the most breathtakingly beautiful wilderness frontier left on the planet. Inspired by late 19th century Great Camps, the Wilderness Outpost at Bedwell River is where childhood wishes and grown-up dreams come true.

Renowned for its soft adventure and soft beds’ program, it is one the most exclusive and unique vacation offerings in the world. National Geographic Traveler magazine calls the resort "rusticating luxury".

An enclave of 20 great white canvas guest tents and 3 additional tents for massage and treatment, dining and lounge are set in a pristine environment. A massive timber cookhouse offers a delicious paradox of indulgent luxury and remote, untamed wilderness. Featuring world-class amenities, sumptuous interiors, and supernatural adventure, the resort leaves nothing wanting, no detail undone.

Location

Designated a Biosphere Reserve, Clayoquot Wilderness Resort is situated at the mouth of the Bedwell River, where it spills into a nine-mile-long fjord. It is located near the seaside village of Tofino, British Columbia and was founded in 1997 by Clayoquot Wilderness Resort Ltd.

Accommodations

Guest tents, like the lounge and spa tents, are roomy, great white canvas prospector-style quarters built on discreetly-situated raised wooden platforms, connected by cedar boardwalks. Placed under canopy of the rainforest and along the water’s edge, beautifully designed Adirondack-style beds are outfitted with luxuriant down duvets for warmth and comfort. Remote-controlled propane woodstoves, antique dressers and tea tables, opulent rugs, oil lamps, heirloom china and silver accessories, and an abundance of candles, complete the offering.

Off-site generators provide hot water to private showers and washrooms, and provide power for essential comforts like electric light, hairdryers and wireless internet.

Dining

Offering a five-star food and beverage service, guests will be served critically-acclaimed, trademark “modern natural cuisine” under direction of Chef Tim May.

Breakfast is prepared by pastry chefs and breakfast cooks who create a banquet of fresh sweet and savory favorites like wild blueberry and cornmeal griddle cakes, rosemary scones, and pacific smoked salmon eggs benedict with pea-meal Canadian bacon.

Wilderness adventurers take ultra-gourmet backpack lunches along for the ride — or the hike, while loungers can visit Chef May in the cookhouse. Guests can settle in at the bistro or family dining tent, in the cookhouse dining room, or at Chef’s open-kitchen bar.

Chef May tempers classical training and sophisticated technique with a firm belief in letting ingredients speak for themselves. His legendary table d’hote tradition, where guests are served a four-course dinner featuring Chef’s choices, began at the Quait Bay resort in 1997 and evolved to include remarkable B.C. wine pairings.

Activities

Clayoquot’s guided activities and self-guided exploration transports you to a true wilderness playground where the opportunities for adventure are limited by imagination alone.

Adventure begins in the thousands of pristine acres, hundreds of miles of abandoned roads and old-growth forest trails, volcanic beach scapes, alpine valleys, lush fern gardens, and inter-tidal waterways. Horseback riding, kayaking, canoeing, whale and bear watching, hiking and fresh and salt water fishing are a few of the activities at your disposal.

Zen in the Wilderness

Clayoquot Wilderness Resort is home to the Healing Grounds, an eco-safari style massage and therapeutic treatment centre. Four massage and treatment tents, three wood-fired cedar hot tubs, a wood-fired cedar sauna, outdoor showers, seawater baths and wrap-around sun decks artfully compose a rest and relaxation destination of intimate proportions.

Near to the Healing Grounds is a small fitness facility complete with stair machine, rowing machine and free weights. Next “door” is the yoga studio complete with heated floors and scheduled morning classes.

Rates

Rates range from $9,500 CAD per couple for three nights and up to $22,000 CAD for seven nights. Packages include Vancouver-Outpost return floatplane fare (pre-scheduled resort charters), horse drawn wagon shuttle, deluxe Outpost accommodations, all gourmet meals, snacks, alcohol, unguided activities (kayaking, canoeing, hiking, mountain biking, fishing), and guided activities (horseback riding, ocean and/or fresh water fishing, whale and bear watching, Wild Side First Nations Interpretive Trail, Hot Springs Cove daytrek, skeet shooting, fly tying clinics, kayaking and canoeing, and mountain bike riding).

Special Packages

Come stay, come play, and go wild at the Clayoquot Wilderness Resort in September. Stay four nights for the price of three — experience indulgent luxury, in a remote, untamed wilderness.