Grizzly Bear Viewing On The West Coast of British Columbia, Canada

Welcome To The Wild!

Welcome to Knight Inlet Grizzly Bear Adventure Tours at Knight Inlet Lodge in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. Enjoy one of the premier grizzly bear viewing spots in the world, set amidst the dramatic snow-capped peaks of Canada's rugged coastline.

Located 80 kilometres, or 50 air miles, north of Campbell River, British Columbia, is a wild and remote area of the Pacific Northwest known as Knight Inlet. Tucked into Glendale Cove 60 kilometres from the mouth of the inlet is Knight Inlet Lodge.

Glendale Cove is home to one of the largest concentrations of grizzly (brown) bears in British Columbia. It is not uncommon for there to be up to 50 bears within 10 kilometres of the lodge in the peak fall season, when the salmon are returning to the river.

Bear Watching Spring Through Fall

The grizzly bears are abundant in the fall but this is not the only season that grizzlies frequent the area around the Knight Inlet Lodge. Starting in April, both black and grizzly bears begin emerging from hibernation and head to Glendale Cove and the estuary to feed on the succulent new spring growth.

Even in mid-summer, when many of the bears have moved into the surrounding timber clearings to feast on berries, we usually see several bears each day as they move in and around the estuary and along the logging roads.

We Offer A Variety Of BC Wilderness Tours

In addition to grizzly bear viewing Knight Inlet Lodge offers additional tours to lodge guests. Each adventure tour or cruise offers a unique, up-close-and-personal view of this spectacular west coast rainforest region of Canada.

• Whale Watching Tours - May to mid-October - daily marine wildlife watching tours to world renowned Johnstone Strait, an area frequented by 16 different pods of killer whales and rated as one of the world's best spots to observe and photograph these magnificent Orcas.
• Inlet Cruises - The Inlet Tour is a beautiful scenic cruise that takes in the natural wonders of Knight Inlet -- tremendous waterfalls plummeting out of sheer rock faces, ancient glaciers with trails carving through the mountains and wild, remote rivers teeming with life.
• Rainforest Walk - This is one of the few pristine watersheds left in this area. We will walk up the valley to large moss-covered old growth trees and stunning waterfalls. Your guide will inform you about the rainforest and the various plant life that abound.
• Sea Kayaking Tours -Drifting quietly in your sea kayak, you will witness these powerful creatures as they quietly forage amongst this fresh sedge growth in the protected waters near our lodge. We are frequently fortunate to see new grizzly bear cubs, fresh from their winter den.

Grizzly Bear Stewardship

Knight Inlet Lodge is a founding member of the Commercial Bear Viewing Association of British Columbia (CBVA). The CBVA is committed to ensuring a sustainable grizzly bear viewing industry in BC that respects the bears and their ecosystems.

We are working unequivocally to ban the currently legal trophy hunting of grizzly bears in British Columbia. In the meantime, we have adopted innovative strategies of working with the hunting community to restrict trophy hunting in critical grizzly bear viewing habitat in coastal BC.

We financially support key conservation groups both in the United States and Canada that work on behalf of the bears and their environment. If you'd like to learn more about how you can personally help in our campaign to stop the trophy hunting of grizzly bears in BC, click here.