Hiking route
Vancouver Island Trail
735.9 km· ↗ 13470 m· gravel· Alpine· Regional route
The trail is in British Columbia. A 736 km point-to-point route: the finish is not where you started. It runs from “Anderson Hill, Oak Bay” to “Cape Scott”. Total ascent is about 13470 m. Elevations along the way range from 0 to 1795 m.
This description is assembled from OpenStreetMap data and our own terrain calculation.
Surface
- gravel — 334.5 km (45%)
- dirt — 234.9 km (32%)
- asphalt — 51 km (7%)
- rock — 18.4 km (2%)
- unpaved — 4.2 km (1%)
- other — 9.2 km (1%)
- not recorded — 90.1 km (12%)
Surface data comes from OpenStreetMap tags on the route's ways.
Who is allowed
- MTB difficulty: S2
The OpenStreetMap mtb:scale, where 0 is an easy path and 6 is barely rideable. The route shows its HARDEST section.
Trail geometry and data come from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Check them on the ground: waymarking can go out of date.