Featuring a fresh design and the most current route updates, Popular Day Hikes is a series of bestselling books written for visitors and locals looking to hike scenic trails from well-established staging areas.

This unique and colourful guidebook sorts through all of the various possibilities and selects for the reader the very best day hikes on Vancouver Island, with locations throughout the region, including:

Carmanah Walbran

Matheson Lake to Roche Cove

Mount Finlayson

Gowlland Tod Park Jocelyn Peak Loop

Skutz Falls Loop

Stocking Lake and Heart Lake

Haslam Trail to Timberland Lake

Top Bridge and Englishman River

Mount Arrowsmith

The Lakes of Forbidden Plateau

With hikes ranging from 6 km to 25 km and from easy to challenging, these routes are all accessible from generally reliable roads. In addition, each hike is accompanied by a clear, colourful map, step by step directions and full-colour photographs.

Each hike includes:

detailed directions to trailheads

colour maps and photographs

seasonal information

round-trip distances

trail commentary

difficulty ratings