An early summer holiday offering superlative bear-viewing

• Four-night guided bear-viewing holidays in May & June

• You may also see moose, elk, coyote, porcupine, wolf, beaver

• First-rate cooking and your own comfortable riverside cabin with bathroom and sundeck

• Experienced, certified and professional bear guides

• Eco-friendly and powered by solar energy

 

 

Click here to see a video compilation from one of our June bear-viewing holidays

Bears, old-growth forest and remote lakes

Early summer  is the best time to see bears that have recently emerged from denning.

We concentrate on black bear-viewing but also sometimes see grizzlies.

We take our guests on trips in our 4x4s and on foot to places the animals favour.

On one of the days you stay with us we will plan a few hours on a local lake in our Zodiac boat.

This is a great time to enjoy the silent remoteness and the tranquility of the country where we live.

We like to combine boating with an interpretive walk through a remarkable old-growth cedar-hemlock rainforest where some of the trees are more than 1,000 years old.

A host of other animals

Apart from bears you may also see moose, mule deer, white-tailed deer, bald eagles, coyotes, elk, porcupine, beaver, otter and, very occasionally, grey wolves.

Your experience will be totally natural and unique and with that comes an element of unpredictability.

Guests who come at this time of year typically enjoy between four or five and about 20 bear sightings.

Wildflowers and Hummingbirds

This is also the season that our wildflowers emerge.

Indian paintbrush and wild lupins line the sides of the tracks that we take you on.

You will probably also see dozens of hummingbirds who return to our ranch after wintering in central America.

These tiny, remarkable birds make great viewing.

Wake up to the sounds of our beautiful river

A typical day would see you waking up in your own cabin by the river.

Kristin, who recently graduated from the North West Culinary Academy of Vancouver, one of Canada’s top chef schools, serves breakfast with hot tea and coffee.

Your guide will then take you out on the first of several bear-viewing tours in the surrounding forests and mountains.

Experienced and certified guides

Depending on the day, we may take you up forgotten tracks to places where the bears like to feed after their long winter hibernation.

On other days we will take our Zodiac out onto one of our remote lakes.

Each day you will travel with one of our trained, experienced and certified bear guides.

Lunch is typically a picnic of home-made sandwiches and fruit.

We serve dinner, a sit-down affair with fine freshly-cooked local food and the best of British Columbia’s beer and wine, at around 6.00pm in the main house.

On most days, we then head out for a little evening viewing – dusk is a favourite time for bears to feed on grasses and forbs – before you retire to your cabins.

Pricing

A four-night bear-viewing holiday between mid May and the end of June costs between C$1,100 and C$1,400 per person plus taxes. The price is based on double occupancy.

 

This was literally the best four days, not just of our holiday, but ever! We stayed at the Grizzly Bear Ranch in June at the beginning of our three week Canadian adventure. We saw around 18 black bears and 2 grizzly bears over the 3 days and have some amazing memories and photos which we’ll never forget. We would recommend this to anyone who wants to experience something completely different, something real and which will give you some great memories which will stay with you for a lifetime.” Tom & Emily from Reading in the UK came to see bears at the ranch in June 2011.  To read this and other reviews on Trip Advisor click here.