SELF-GUIDED HIKING TOURS IN THE SOUTH CHILCOTIN MOUNTAINS

Are you looking for a self-guided hiking trip in the South Chilcotin Mountains Park?Are you looking for an alpine hut-based hiking experience that allows you to immerse yourself in nature?

Experience a single hut-based or multiple hut-based hike adventure. With our hut-based back-country hiking experience, take your hiking skills to the next level. You can:

Hike into one of our mountain huts and use this as your base to explore the surrounding area.
Complete our 7-day hut-to-hut hiking circuit
Build your own hut-to-hut trip staying at 2-5 huts over 3-7 days

Our cabins in the South Chilcotin Mountains are located at tree line (6,500 ft) where you have access to the alpine, wildlife viewing opportunities and panoramic views. Many day hikes are available starting right from each cabin. So whether you are staying for a couple of nights or a whole week, you can enjoy a different hike every day.

While you enjoy nature, you will also have the opportunity to look after it. We provide you with our current research tools such as our wildlife sighting forms. This way you can participate and contribute to something bigger than yourself with a sustainable hiking experience!

A wilderness full of adventure ON YOUR BACK-COUNTRY SELF-GUIDED hIKING TOUR
THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT WITH NATURE IN THE SOUTH CHILCOTIN MOUNTAINS by hiking
NEW EXPERIENCES TO LEARN ABOUT CONSERVATION WITH A SUSTAINABLE HIKING TRIP, contributing to real-world conservation
THE CHANCE TO view wildlife in their natural habitats IN THE SOUTH CHILCOTIN MOUNTAINS
THE OPPORTUNITY TO GAIN A FRESH PERSPECTIVE ON YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE AS YOU ACCESS THE WILDERNESS BY hiking
STAY AT 5 CABINS OVER 7 DAYS TO COMPLETE OUR MOUNTAIN BIKE CIRCUIT TOUR or build your own single hut or hut-to-hut hiking trip
CHALLENGE YOURSELF AS YOU hike DEEP INTO THE BACK-COUNTRY ON YOUR SUSTAINABLE hiking TRIP

Please note that this is an accommodation-only booking. The hiking will be self-guided, meaning you need to provide your own hiking equipment and you are responsible for your own emergency procedures. We recommend you familiarize yourself with a map and bring your own satellite communication device (Sat-phone, InReach, Spot, etc.). You can contact us with your communication device via email or phone.

Our hut-to-hut self-guided hiking circuit

Our hut-to-hut self-guided hiking circuit tour leads you through the South Chilcotin Mountains Park. Explore the Chilcotin Ark area under your own power while staying in our rustic, fully stocked satellite research huts.

You will travel almost 100km over 5 to 7 days, covering 10-25 km per day on this multiday South Chilcotin hiking tour. Your hiking journey takes you through alpine meadows and valley forests up to the golden mountain peaks as you explore the Relay, Big Creek, Upper Tyaughton, Spruce Lake and Eldorado areas.

This trip can also be completed by mountain bike. Find out more about this trip on our self-guided hut-to-hut mountain biking trip page

Our mountain cabins

Our back-country huts/ mountain cabins are available for independent users in the South Chilcotin Mountains in southwest British Columbia. They are suitable as a base for multiday hiking trips, hut-to-hut hiking circuits as well as summer mountain bike trips and back-country skiing trips in the winter.

Our mountain cabins are rustic mountain log or board cabins with a sleeping loft, bunk bed system or bedrooms depending on the cabin. All cabins have a big room, including kitchen. The cabins can comfortably accommodate 4-8 people, depending on the cabin. Your cooking facilities are a propane stove and wood stove which also provides the heat for the cabins. All the cooking equipment and dishware are available at the cabins as well as a variety of canned and dry goods. You’ll collect water from the nearby mountain creeks and each cabin has an outhouse.

By staying at one of our fully-stocked satellite research huts, you only need to bring your personal and hiking equipment, sleeping bag and fresh food. Allowing you to explore the mountains sustainably under your own power and to enjoy a true nature connection.

Depending on where you are coming from, you can drive yourself directly to the trail head where you will start hiking to camp. If you are coming from further away, you can stay a night at our Ranch facilities (additional costs). You can drive yourself from there or book our trail head drop off.

Make your contribution to the conservation of the Chilcotin Ark

You will hike into our hut under your own power contributing to real-world conservation. Heli-hiking and helicopter shuttles not only ruin a true nature connection, they also produce loud noise, high emission of carbon dioxide and displace wildlife which has drastic impacts on wildlife population numbers. Mountain goats, of which BC holds more than 50% of the world’s population, suffer especially from helicopter disturbance as it results in their displacement or even death.

Are you looking for a guided hiking experience instead?

Take a look at our guided ranch-based hiking trip and guided camp-based hiking trip: