Port Alberni to Nitinat
Port Alberni to Nitinat
Never done this route - via Bamfield/Carmanah. Anybody know if the Google Maps route is legit? Road conditions about the same as via Cowichan?
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tough route via Bamfield/Carmanah....I think you want PA to Franklin, then Nitinat.....then perhaps Carmanah
takes about 1/2 hr longer on gravel, a bit confusing to find the entrance and don't miss turnoff to Nat/Franklin, if you go straight you WILL go to Bamfield....usually a bit rougher and more traffic than Lk Cow routes
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takes about 1/2 hr longer on gravel, a bit confusing to find the entrance and don't miss turnoff to Nat/Franklin, if you go straight you WILL go to Bamfield....usually a bit rougher and more traffic than Lk Cow routes
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Try these free topo. maps. Click on grid desired then mouse on right. http://www.canmaps.com/topo/nts50/topomap/092c15.htm
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somebody posted last year about an adventure they had after trusting google maps' recommended route ... with their road getting narrower and narrower, and more and more grown over ... and their route taking hours extra after back tracking.
It sounded like the google intel was not up to date on the logging roads.
It sounded like the google intel was not up to date on the logging roads.
Port Alberni to Nitinaht
we take our trailer through ,the road is well marker all the way through about an hour and a half with trailer one hour just truck,,
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We traveled it on Saturday. It's really only a bit rough on the hill going up to the lookout over Barkley Sound/Alberni Inlet. The rest of the road is really pretty smooth especially the 15 km paved section after Franklin Camp.KUS wrote: takes about 1/2 hr longer on gravel, a bit confusing to find the entrance and don't miss turnoff to Nat/Franklin, if you go straight you WILL go to Bamfield....usually a bit rougher and more traffic than Lk Cow routes
BTW, We met a logging truck coming down that hill on Friday and I was white as a sheet after it passed. He was coming downhill in a wide arc and I didn't think he was going to clear us. It's the most freaked I've been on that road in 18 years.
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