Port Alberni to Nitinat

EvanOR · Post by **EvanOR** » Wed Aug 05, 2015 12:44 pm

Never done this route - via Bamfield/Carmanah. Anybody know if the Google Maps route is legit? Road conditions about the same as via Cowichan?

Thanks

KUS · Post by **KUS** » Wed Aug 05, 2015 1:53 pm

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

JL · Post by JL » Wed Aug 05, 2015 1:59 pm

Try these free topo. maps. Click on grid desired then mouse on right. http://www.canmaps.com/topo/nts50/topomap/092c15.htm

abetanzo · Post by **abetanzo** » Wed Aug 05, 2015 2:04 pm

this map could help

JL · Post by JL » Wed Aug 05, 2015 2:07 pm

Now thats a map !!! But I feel a little dizzy

juandesooka · Post by **juandesooka** » Wed Aug 05, 2015 2:11 pm

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.

abetanzo · Post by **abetanzo** » Wed Aug 05, 2015 3:56 pm

haha! sorry JL after reducing it by about 85% that's what you get!

anyone want a better copy email me... its normally about 5.5MB

randrew · Post by **randrew** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 7:38 am

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,,

mortontoemike · Post by **mortontoemike** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 4:41 pm

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

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.

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.

KUS · Post by **KUS** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 10:18 pm

mortontoemike wrote:We traveled it on Saturday

timed it from Nanoose?

abetanzo · Post by **abetanzo** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:02 am

I have a couple other maps from the backroads map book.. let me know if you'd like a copy

EvanOR · Post by **EvanOR** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 12:34 pm

Easy. About 90 mins and well marked. Google Maps route legit.

tempy · Post by **tempy** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 11:45 am

Careful on the paved section - you can start whooping it up and down like a rollercoaster and bottoming out as you get going too fast.

GWIND · Post by **GWIND** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 1:55 pm

The Whoop de du section. Never hit the ceiling on that run. 30 K only

Port Alberni to Nitinat

Port Alberni to Nitinat

Port Alberni to Nitinaht

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