Cape Fife Hiking Trail, Naikoon Provincial Park, Haida Gwaii
Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada

Cape Fife Hiking Trail, Naikoon Provincial Park: A hikers hike, a fun, dirty hike, complete with bridges, stumps, fallen logs, thick forests, sandy beaches and forested view points. It is not an easy grade hike, nor short or dry. It will involve sweat and effort as you climb hills and wade through forests following a muddy path leading to a camping shelter.

All walkers, hikers and backpackers should be prepared for moist conditions and fast changing weather. Proper equipment, attitude and planning are recommended. Cape Fife Hiking Trail day trippers are usually found on the path exploring parts of the trail and then turning back - not because they want to but because the trail is too long to be a safe day trip.

Many backpackers use the Cape Fife Trail as a starting point to the 89 km East Beach Trail. Backpackers complete the entire one-way 10 km Cape Fife Trail in about 4-6 hours. Many backpackers take even a longer time completing the trail so to enjoy the Argonaut Plain and the many unique west coast bog environments along the way leading to the East Beach shelter at the end of the trail.

Then there are others, who extend the trail adventure into a 2-3 day backpack experience exploring the coastal forest, bogs and sandy beaches up to Rose Spit. Hikers start with the Cape Fife Trail to the East Beach shelter - then continue to Rose Spit. Then hike along North Beach back to Tow Hill day use parking area. It is a 35 km return trip.

How to Get to the Cape Fife Hiking Trail: Drive north on Hwy 16 from Skidegate BC Ferry towards Masset Village. Continue driving north-east of Masset Village on the main hwy over the Sangan River into the Tow Hill Ecological Reserve area of the Naikoon Provincial Park. The paved road turns to gravel (Tow Hill Road). Continue straight ahead (30 min.) past Agate Beach Campground sign and the Tow Hill Parking Lot, right before the Hiellen River bridge. On the other side of the bridge to your right is the small Cape Fife trailhead sign. Park here and start walking.