Canada Motorcycle Tour – Best of the West

Your Canada motorcycle tour begins in Vancouver, where all participants arrive today. In the evening you'll meet the group over a welcome dinner and receive the first important information about the two weeks ahead.

This guided Canada motorcycle tour starts off relaxed: in the morning you'll get to know the Pacific metropolis on a short city tour, and in the afternoon you'll take care of the paperwork for picking up your motorcycle. Overnight in Vancouver.

As a British Columbia motorcycle tour, the first stage takes the Trans-Canada Highway eastward, following the Fraser River through Sunshine Valley. Along the old Gold Rush Trail you reach the town of Penticton on Lake Okanagan, where you spend the night.

On your rental motorcycle you continue east, close to the US border, through fertile wine and fruit country and Gladstone Provincial Park. On the shore of Kootenay Lake you reach Nelson in the late afternoon.

Today the scenery turns typically Canadian: you ride along Lake Kootenay, enjoy winding roads to New Denver, and take the ferry across to Shelter Bay before the Rocky Mountains motorcycle tour begins in earnest at Arrow Lake.

As an on-road Canada motorcycle tour, today's stage crosses Rogers Pass right into the heart of the Rocky Mountains. In Yoho National Park, a detour to Emerald Lake is well worth it before you cross Kicking Horse Pass to reach the famous Lake Louise.

The Icefields Parkway ranks among the most spectacular stages of the entire trip: flanked by glaciers and mighty mountain massifs, with detours to Hector Lake and Peyto Lake, you pass the Icefield Skywalk before finally reaching Jasper.

On this Whistler-to-Jasper leg of the trip, today leaves room to catch your breath: an optional day trip leads through Jasper National Park to Maligne Lake and the deep Maligne Canyon, or you can simply stroll through the mountain town of Jasper.

After the quiet day, a longer transfer stage follows: this leg toward the Vancouver motorcycle tour route passes through Mt. Robson Provincial Park with a photo stop at the lookout, before you cross wooded landscapes all the way to Clearwater.

On this 16-day Canada motorcycle tour, the morning takes you deep into Wells Gray Provincial Park to impressive waterfalls such as Helmcken Falls. The small McLure ferry then carries you across for a winding back-road ride on to Kamloops.

Today brings one of the biggest highlights of the trip: the Duffey Lake Road. Along Lake Kamloops and the Fraser River you reach Lillooet, before this winding mountain pass road carries you into Whistler in the early evening.

Via the Sea-to-Sky Highway you reach the ferry to Vancouver Island. Once there, a true motorcycling highlight awaits on the Pacific Rim National Park route: 140 kilometers of curve after curve along dreamlike Pacific beaches.

This Vancouver Island motorcycle tour leaves room today for a whale-watching trip – orca sightings are not uncommon here. Alternatively, take a short day ride on your motorcycle, or simply relax and unwind.

Via a small back road past Lake Cowichan and the Jordan River, you reach Victoria in the afternoon. Around Kootenay Lake and Ucluelet you already had chances for bear watching on this Canada motorcycle tour – now the British-flavored charm of the capital awaits.

The morning leaves time for the picture-book city of Victoria and the famous Butchart Gardens, a botanical garden over 100 years old. In the afternoon you take the ferry back to the Canadian mainland, letting this Canada motorcycle tour wind down.

The final day of your Canada motorcycle tour has arrived – unless you extend your stay with a few extra days in this versatile metropolis. After two eventful weeks between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coast, it's time to say goodbye and begin your journey home.