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The Agate Beach Campground is located in Naikoon Provincial Park, just a stone’s throw away from Tow Hill. It is open year-round and features pit toilets, picnic tables, fire pits, water source and a kitchen shelter. The sites, which all face the Pacific Ocean, are suitable for small campers and tents. Lonely Planet captures the essence of Agate Beach quite succinctly, I think: “This stunning, wind-whipped campground is right on the beach on the north shore.” In short, it’s both rugged and beautiful.||||I remember the first time I camped at Agate Beach – that was all the way back in 1995. My friends and I were “tweens” back then. Admittedly, I don’t remember too much about the trip other than one of my friends violating a general food rule: Keep your food sealed and away from your tent! Well, he didn’t do that! Instead, he kept some leftover chicken in a plastic bag . . . in his tent! Thankfully he didn’t attract any bears that night! Ah, to be young (and foolish) again . . . though I guess one can also be old(er) and foolish, too . . .||||Fast-forward to the current day. It was so nice to patronize the campsite. The weather was beautiful – clear, sunny skies – but quite windy, as is the norm at North Beach. Many of the sites appear to have received a minor re-fresh: A lot of the picnic tables look relatively new and the sites themselves nicely groomed. In brief, the site was perfect to pitch up a tent!||||Beyond the world-class camping, the scenery in and around Agate Beach is, in my view, unmatched. First, you have beautiful North Beach at your doorstep (or tent flap). Walk the rocky beach and search for the campsite’s namesake agates. There’s no shortage of these rocks on the beach. To distinguish an agate from a standard rock, look for smooth irregular stones that are somewhat translucent with pock marks. The agates come in a variety of colours – though white is the most common – and represent a nice keepsake of your stay here. Second, at low tide, the sandy beach is exposed and presents a great opportunity to enjoy the sea and its bounty (hello Dungeness Crab!). Third, the whole campsite is accentuated by a backdrop of the rain forest. There are many deer trails you can follow that’ll bring you into Haida Gwaii’s unique bog ecosystem . . . but, if you follow these trails, make sure you’re properly equipped and comfortable walking an unmarked route! Finally, you can walk all the way to the Blow Hole and Tow Hill – along the beach – if you so choose. Indeed, there’s no shortage of recreational activities for one to enjoy, whether it’s hiking, beachcombing, or surfing the waves.||||Oh! And there’s no Internet service out here, either, which is perfect if one wants to truly get away from it all on the edge of...
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The Agate Beach Campground is located in Naikoon Provincial Park, just a stone’s throw away from Tow Hill. It is open year-round and features pit toilets, picnic tables, fire pits, water source and a kitchen shelter. The sites, which all face the Pacific Ocean, are suitable for small campers and tents. Lonely Planet captures the essence of Agate Beach quite succinctly, I think: “This stunning, wind-whipped campground is right on the beach on the north shore.” In short, it’s both rugged and beautiful.||||I remember the first time I camped at Agate Beach – that was all the way back in 1995. My friends and I were “tweens” back then. Admittedly, I don’t remember too much about the trip other than one of my friends violating a general food rule: Keep your food sealed and away from your tent! Well, he didn’t do that! Instead, he kept some leftover chicken in a plastic bag . . . in his tent! Thankfully he didn’t attract any bears that night! Ah, to be young (and foolish) again . . . though I guess one can also be old(er) and foolish, too . . .||||Fast-forward to the current day. It was so nice to patronize the campsite. The weather was beautiful – clear, sunny skies – but quite windy, as is the norm at North Beach. Many of the sites appear to have received a minor re-fresh: A lot of the picnic tables look relatively new and the sites themselves nicely groomed. In brief, the site was perfect to pitch up a tent!||||Beyond the world-class camping, the scenery in and around Agate Beach is, in my view, unmatched. First, you have beautiful North Beach at your doorstep (or tent flap). Walk the rocky beach and search for the campsite’s namesake agates. There’s no shortage of these rocks on the beach. To distinguish an agate from a standard rock, look for smooth irregular stones that are somewhat translucent with pock marks. The agates come in a variety of colours – though white is the most common – and represent a nice keepsake of your stay here. Second, at low tide, the sandy beach is exposed and presents a great opportunity to enjoy the sea and its bounty (hello Dungeness Crab!). Third, the whole campsite is accentuated by a backdrop of the rain forest. There are many deer trails you can follow that’ll bring you into Haida Gwaii’s unique bog ecosystem . . . but, if you follow these trails, make sure you’re properly equipped and comfortable walking an unmarked route! Finally, you can walk all the way to the Blow Hole and Tow Hill – along the beach – if you so choose. Indeed, there’s no shortage of recreational activities for one to enjoy, whether it’s hiking, beachcombing, or surfing the waves.||||Oh! And there’s no Internet service out here, either, which is perfect if one wants to truly get away from it all on the edge of...
Read moreWell finally after many years of dreamin 21d. We were there from July 13 -July 21 this year. We drove from Nanaimo through Highway 5 because of the terrible and biggest BC forest fires in history! Anyway, we arrived in Haida Gwaii around 6:35 in the morning and ||drove straight to Agate Beach Campground. There are no reservations there but we managed to get a spot luckily! We only got rained out for about 1.5 days during our entire stay. There were lots of eagles around! Tow Hill was just 20 minutes or so away. We just hiked our way there. It took us another 20 minutes to reach the top look-out. Anyway, I really enjoyed some crabbing there although the best place for that is about 10 minutes drive away to the North Beach where everybody goes for beach crabbing. I didn't mind crabbing in Agate, I watched a First Nation woman crabbing so I simply copied her style which was to go in the water up to her lower thigh with a bucket and a hand-held fish net for catching crabs! It was really easy! I got 5 in about 40 minutes! You need a wader to do this because the water was really cold! Unfortunately, me brand new wader had a small leak on the right leg so part of me was really cold! LOL! The campsite is facing the ocean and we stayed in our camperized van. Wow! The scenery was wonderful! Worth every penny we spent on the trip! So I already crossed it out from my bucket list and wouldn't mind visiting...
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