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Tofino and the surrounding area is home to many spectacular and unique sights, restaurants and shops.

There are a number of online resources to help you plan your vacation and guide you while you are here, but please feel free to ask any of our front desk staff to help you with more information to make your stay on the West Coast as enjoyable as possible.

Links to services in and around Tofino.

• Remote Passages

  www.remotepassages.com
  Offering a variety of marine excursions including whale watching, bear watching, hot springs cove tours and bear watching. Remote Passages strives to help visitors appreciate the coastal environment through fun, educational outings.

• Tofino Guide

  www.tofino-bc.com
  Tofino's favorite website with information about accommodations, activities and the town's services.

• Pacific Surf School

  www.pacificsurfschool.com
  Offering surfing lessons and surf rentals since 1998.

• Tofino Paddle Surf

  www.tofinopaddlesurf.com
  Offering stand up paddle boarding and surfing tours, adventures, lessons, retreats and camps directly on Mackenzie Beach.

• Sacred Stone Spa

  www.sacredstone.ca
  Ask at Cox Bay Beach Resort's front desk about special massage and treatment rates for guests at the resort.

• Rare Earth Wedding Event Production

  www.rareearthweddings.com
  Your wedding and event planning specialist.

• Studio One Aveda Salon

  www.studioonetofino.ca
  An Aveda concept salon located in Tofino, offering hair services, makeup and aesthetics in a calming environment. Located in the popular ‘Live to Surf’ complex.

• Biggar Fish Charters

  www.fishingcharterstofino.com
  Tofino’s salmon and halibut fishing charter company since 1995.

• Fishing Charter

  www.wardowest.com
  Offering the “reel” Tofino experience with salmon, halibut and sport fishing charters.

• Tofino Sea Kayaking

  www.tofinoseakayaking.com
  Tofino’s premier kayaking company, offering day tours, instructional courses, rentals and multi-day excursions.

• TOF Cycles

  www.tofcycles.com
  Offers bike rentals, repairs, sales and the friendliest service in Tofino.

• Tofino Air

  www.tofinoair.ca
  Specializing in scenic flights and charter service for the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Scheduled flights to Hot Springs Cove and Ahousat.

• Pacific Coastal Airlines

  www.pacificcoastal.com
  Year round schedule service to Tofino/Ucluelet.

Some things to do during your West Coast visit

Explore on the water!

Take a Whale Watching trip, a shore-cruising boat charter or a guided kayak trip. Much of Clayoquot Sound is accessible only by water and the view of Esowista Peninsula with Meare's Island as a backdrop is stunning. On any boat trip, you can expect to see Lennard Light House, bald eagles, harbour seals, sea lions, harbour porpoises and gray, humpback or orca whales.

Beachcomb

Stroll along one of the many beautiful, long, sandy beaches in Tofino or the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.

Take a surf lesson

Learn to ride the untamed rollers coming in from deep in the Pacific Ocean. Tofino is home to a number of companies who are experts at making your foray into surfing as fun and easy as possible, from full lessons to equipment rentals and sales.

Winter storm watch

Walk from any beach towards the forest line and not far from the sound of the surf you will discover that you are still encountering driftwood. These multi-ton logs were set in their current position by huge waves that regularly pound our coast. Between November and February, Tofino will be hit with winds exceeding 100 km per hour, 10 metre waves, and unrelenting horizontal rain. Whole beaches to yourself, warm cozy nights, and appreciative hosts are some of the many treasures of the Storm Watching season.

Have a fresh local seafood dinner

As Tofino is a fishing village, it is a must to enjoy some local wild seafood even if you don't catch it yourself. For bonus points, try wild salmon six ways (grilled, baked, hot smoked, cold smoked, jerked, and poached) or dungeness crab, freshly shucked oysters, side striped jumbo shrimp, smoked cod, halibut and chips, local snapper or sole quickly pan fried, and steamed mussels or clams.

Hike and explore

Hike one of the trails in the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve. Each trail represents a different feature of the rainforest ecosystem. With helpful interpretive signage along the way to enlighten the hiker, it's a great learning exercise for all ages. Some of the more unique trails are Shorepine Bog Trail (wheelchair accessible), Spruce Fringe Trail, and either of the Rainforest Trail Loops.

Local distances

Cox Bay Beach Resort is closely situated to some of the West Coast's best locales and destinations

• 5 minutes to Tofino Shops and Restaurants.
• 10 minutes to the Golf Course.
• 10 minutes to the Airport.
• 10 minutes to Longbeach.
• 30 minutes to Ucluelet.