Visiting Boat Basin

VISITING US
DAY TRIPS TO THE GARDENS
Day trips are available on a limited basis. Click here for details.

DROP IN VISITORS
Drop In Visitors to the Gardens will be accommodated wherever possible after 4PM. The cost is $30/person. All drop in guests must be accompanied by a staff member.

NEED TO KNOW
Visiting Cougar Annie's Garden or the Temperate Rainforest Field Study Centre with your group is an adventure and a privilege. Only a limited number of people can be accommodated.

The mandate set by the Foundation's Board of Directors insists that in arranging visits, we focus on education, preservation, and heritage. We welcome motivated, independent people with a keen interest in the area. For your own safety, all visitors should be reasonably physically fit.

When you are here you will find space and silence and isolation and extraordinary beauty. You will be in the middle of a temperate rainforest -- one of the densest ecosystems anywhere in the world. This ecosystem is fragile and threatened. The Boat Basin Foundation's aim is to assist you to learn more about it, and to respect it.

To learn more about overnight group trips to the Temperate Rainforest Field Study Centre with your group of university students or with your special interest group, click here.

"The Boat Basin Foundation is in a unique position on the West Coast. As steward of one of the few privately held pieces of property in Clayoquot Sound, one containing the now reclaimed garden of Cougar Annie, the Foundation has a great responsibility towards this land, its diversity and its history. Such responsibility requires dedication and imagination; it is a challenge and a privilege to all who are involved."

-Margaret Horsfield, from the Foreword of Cougar Annie's Garden (third printing)