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Facilities include drive-in sites, washrooms, picnic tables, an evening interpretive program,
and plenty of firewood, but no showers or hookups. Mid-March to mid-October, walk-in
sites are $17.60 per night and all other sites are $23.50. Some sites can be reserved through
the Parks Canada Campground Reservation Service (877/737-3783, www.pccamping.ca )
for a small additional fee.
Wya Point Resort (off Willowbrae Rd., 250/726-2625, campsites $30-60, yurts $125
s or d) has a number of absolute oceanfront campsites ($60) as well as sites set among
towering trees of the coastal rainforest ($30). The adjacent beach is very private and often
has good waves for surfing. To get there, head south from the Port Alberni/Tofino highway
junction and look for Willowbrae Road to the right. Affiliated with this campground is Wya
Point Surf Shop Cafe (2201 Pacific Rim Hwy. 250/726-2992, $25), north of the junction,
which has sites that are popular with the surfing community, as well as a surf shop and cafe.
Information and Services
The Pacific Rim Visitor Centre (2791 Pacific Rim Hwy., 250/726-4600, 10am-4:30pm
daily May-mid-Oct., until 7pm in July and August), where Highway 4 meets the road from
Port Alberni.
There are no stores or gas stations in the park, but supplies and gas are available in
Ucluelet and Tofino.
Toino
The bustling tourist town of Tofino sits at the end of a long, narrow peninsula, with the only
road access to the outside world being winding Highway 4. In winter, it's a quiet, friendly
community with a population of fewer than 2,000. In summer, the population swells to sev-
eral times that size, and the village springs to life: Fishing boats pick up supplies and depos-
it salmon, cod, prawns, crabs, halibut, and other delicacies of the sea, and cruising, whale
watching, and fishing boats, along with seaplanes, do a roaring business introducing visit-
ors to the natural wonders of the West Coast.
The town lies on the southern edge of sheltered Clayoquot Sound, known worldwide
for an ongoing fight by environmentalists to save the world's largest remaining coastal tem-
perate forest. Around 200,000 hectares (494,000 acres) of this old-growth forest remain;
several parks, including Clayoquot Arm Provincial Park, Clayoquot Plateau Provincial
Park, Hesquiat Peninsula Provincial Park, Flores Island Provincial Park, and Ma-
quinna Marine Provincial Park, have resulted from the Clayoquot Sound Land Use De-
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