Vancouver Island Boondocking Free Camping On Vancouver Island Elk Bay Recreation Site We explore a bit of Campbell River and set off to the Elk Bay Rec Site to enjoy some free oceanside camping.

Boondocking and free camping on Vancouver Island can be hard to come by unless you know where to look. Lucky for us, we came across the Backroad Mapbook which you can find here: http://amzn.to/2wXzCez

This map book details all the rec sites, trails, kayak routes and dispersed camping you can imagine. If paid itself off in the first night we owned it and is a musthave for people looking to boondock on Vancouver Island.

Info on the Elk Bay Rec Site can be found here: http://www.sitesandtrailsbc.ca/search...

Within the Sayward Forest, Elk Bay is one of only two developed recreation sites with access to the ocean. There are two parts to the site: the main camping area with the boat launch and a smaller, two unit site located on the other side of the creek. There are great panorama vistas looking across Discovery Passage to Quadra and Sonora Islands and the mountains beyond.

Driving Directions:From Campbell River, head north on Highway 19. Turn right just after Roberts Lake, onto the Elk Bay road (gravel) about 33 km from town. Drive 11.3 km from the highway and you'll come to the junction of the Stella Lake road. Turn right, follow it for another 3.2 km and the road will split (log dump area straight ahead). Make a sharp right and carry on for another 0.7 km you should reach the entrance to the main part of the site. The entrance to the small site is another 400 metres down the road.

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