When the Pacific Rim Highway connected Port Alberni to Vancouver Island’s west coast in 1959, it transformed an area previously only reachable by boat or air into an easy-to-access destination. The 126-kilometre crinkly logging road—now paved—opened all the Ukluth Peninsula’s broad beaches, intertidal zones and superb trails to worldwide visitors eager to experience the clean air and foaming waves crashing in from the open Pacific. The first groups of visitors joining the traditional Nuu-chah-nulth and the later Norwegian, Scot and […]

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