If Lake Cowichan is known for one thing, this is it. You climb into an inflated tube, lean back, and let the Cowichan River carry you right through town. It sounds far too simple to be worth doing, until you've done it. Then you'll be the one telling your friends they have to go. For most of the run, the river moves at roughly walking pace. The water is cool and clear, the trees lean in overhead, and the gravel bars invite you to stretch your legs. Every so often a stretch pi

Day Trippers guide to visiting Lake Cowichan

Here's something that still makes me smile. Lake Cowichan is a town of about three thousand people, and within a few easy blocks of each other you'll find five places to get a coffee and something baked. I'd expect that in a city. In a lakeside town where half the doors are shut on a January Tuesday, it feels like a small miracle. The best part? No two of them are alike. Grab a friend (or go solo, I won't judge) and let me walk you through them. Ed's Coffeehouse 67 South Shor

The best guide for your Get Away weekend to Lake Cowichan

Before I tell you where to go, I want to tell you who to thank. The trails around Cowichan Lake didn't arrive with the tourism. They were built, and are still looked after, by the Cowichan Lake Trail Blazers Society, a volunteer group that develops, maintains and promotes hiking and biking routes across the region. Every well-cut switchback and cleared windfall out there is somebody's Saturday. Check their website for the full-meal deal on our amazing trails. Keep that in you