Experience Canada's Wilderness
Experience Canada’s Wilderness
At Wilderness Trails, our Six Principle Philosophy—nature connection, nature conservation, self-sufficiency, personal development, empowerment, and conscious awareness—guides everything we do.
New Christmas Music Album
As winter settles in, we’ve captured this feeling in our new Christmas music album, Riding Home For Christmas, available on Spotify and many other streaming services. This festive album is filled with Christmas music to get you in the holiday spirit and shares how we experience winter in the Chilcotin Ark – connecting with nature, embracing the quiet of the season, and celebrating all we’re thankful for.
In this newsletter, we want to share how Nature Connection will be part of your experience with us as you experience Canada’s wilderness:
Canada is among the most traveled-to countries and for good reasons. With its wide-open spaces, untouched wilderness, and sense of calm away from the fast-paced world, it offers peace and safety that can’t be found anywhere else.
The Chilcotin Ark embodies this spirit of Canada’s wild heart – connect to nature and explore untouched landscapes and remote wilderness. Here, far from crowds, cell service, TV, and traffic, you can truly disconnect from city life and reconnect with nature and with yourself. Whether you sip pure, fresh mountain water, taste wild berries, smell the wildflowers, trees, and grasses, or track wildlife, nature offers its restorative benefits in many ways.
Family Ranch Adventure
From our family to your family, we want to share our wilderness lifestyle and a true nature connection with you. Our ranch-based trips are a great way to introduce your family to all the skills needed in the back country, while returning to the comfort of our ranch house each night.
Your kids learn new skills such as horse saddling and care, develop self-sufficiency by harvesting wild edibles, contribute to conservation by tracking wildlife, and feel empowered by overcoming nature’s challenges. All of this while in a natural, wilderness environment that allows you to slow down, spend meaningful time together as a family, and experience a nature connection.
Contact us to discuss your interest and we can tailor our wilderness experiences to your family’s skills, interests and goals
Accommodation – Immersed in Nature
Immerse yourself in nature and gain the distance needed from day-to-day life.
Winter Accommodation
Stay in our cozy ranch log cabins and enjoy the peaceful and snow-covered landscapes. Explore the wilderness at your own pace through snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, or ice fishing.
For a deeper wilderness experience, venture to a backcountry cabin, where you’ll ski under your own power and immerse yourself fully in the stillness of Canada’s wilderness. Learn more.
Summer Accommodation
Our accommodation options bring you closer to the land, offering different levels depending on how deeply you want to connect with nature and experience Canada’s wilderness. Whether you stay at our campground or in our log cabins, you can embrace the solitude to recharge and reflect, or take part in our community lifestyle by taking care of the animals or joining us for a map orientation.
Learn more.
Got experience in the Backcountry?
Our remote backcountry cabins are the perfect option for your wilderness adventure. You can travel light when staying in our cabins. Our cabins are fully equipped with propane stoves, cookware, and basic dry goods, all you need is your fresh food and personal gear. Learn more.
Digital nomads
Our cabins and mountain cabins allow you to work remotely with the wilderness right outside your door, allowing you to create your own work-life balance in connection with nature and all it’s benefits for as long as you need.
Contact us to discuss your interests and options.
Conservation Hiking Adventure
Connect with nature on either a ranch-based or hut-based hiking adventure. Explore Canada’s untouched wilderness – majestic peaks, crystal-clear streams, and wildlife. Set out for another hike each day and take part in hands-on conservation activities such as wildlife and habitat monitoring, or invasive plant management. These efforts help protect the Chilcotin Ark, creating a powerful sense of nature connection and contribution.
Contact us to discuss your interests, wilderness skills and the best opportunities and experience Canada’s wilderness.
Kick Start Your Journey at Home
Nature Connection Video
See what nature connection truly looks like in this horse pack trip video. From riding through wide-open alpine landscapes at sunrise and sunset, to harvesting wild edibles, and learning how to track wildlife, this trip shows how simple moments in the wilderness deepen your sense of nature connection.
Read our Philosophy – Nature Connection Book
The book shares real stories of wilderness living—from tracking wildlife to backcountry adventures—showing how time in nature deepens purpose, balance, and connection.
Get the ebook and other Wilderness Lifestyle Books on our partner’s website, Fortress Books and Web.
Partnership for Conservation
Together with the Chilcotin Ark Institute, we contribute to conservation and stewardship efforts in the Chilcotin Ark.
All of our guests and students make their contribution to the conservation of the wilderness they are immersed in. That’s why they get involved in hands-on conservation projects and 5% of every trip and training program goes towards stewardship in the Chilcotin Ark.
Donate Towards Conservation
Donate here
University Practicum Opportunities
We believe a Practicum should be more than just a line item on your resume – it should be a life-changing experience profoundly expanding your vision of who you can be and what you can accomplish. Learn more on our website.
Stay up to date with what’s going on by checking out new podcasts and blog stories, certificates and online courses on our partner website Trails to Empowerment or by following Trails to Empowerment on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
Are you ready to experience a transformational wilderness adventure?
Fill in our Wilderness Readiness Survey.
We look forward to sharing a Six Principle wilderness experience with you,
Your Wilderness Trails community