Mount Fernie Provincial Park Hike with Wild Nature Tours. Discover Fernie’s wild side this summer with Wild Nature Tours.
Experienced naturalist guides will take you on a guided interpretive tour, explaining the area’s unique natural features and highlights along the way. These hikes are ideal for anyone who wants to explore Fernie’s beautiful trails and learn from knowledgeable, local guides.
Mount Fernie Provincial Park Loop (3 hours)
Enjoy a mellow hike through the provincial park at the base of Mount Fernie. Learn about forest ecology and human uses of plants from a knowledgeable guide in a mature Interior Cedar Hemlock forest.
Start time: 2pm, Saturday June 6th or 9am, 2pm or 6pm on request
Difficulty: easy
Price: $50 pp Snacks included
Min. # of guests: 4 – Less than 4 guests? Call and join the waitlist
Meeting location: Overflow parking lot at Mt Fernie Provincial Park
Full 2015 Summer Tour schedule
**All tours are also available for booking on other dates when guide availability allows, except where otherwise stated:
Saturday June 6th: Mount Fernie Provincial Park Loop (3 hours, Easy rating)
Thursday, July 2nd: The Castle Summit (3 hours, Moderate rating)
Thursday July 9th: Ammonite Hike (3 hours, Moderate rating)
Saturday, July 18th: Mount Fernie Summit (6 hours, Difficult rating)
Saturday August 8th: Fernie Ridge Wildflower Walk (6 hours, Moderate rating)
Saturday July 25th & Saturday August 15th ONLY: Heiko’s Trail to Island Lake Lodge (12 hours, Very difficult rating)
August 15-16 & August 29-30 ONLY: Flathead Weekend Overnight Adventure (2 days, Difficult rating)
2015 Summer Hikes are available as soon as the snowmelt allows. Hikes will be offered on specific dates and by reservation/availability. Call for details & reservations.
About the Wild Nature Tours Guides:
Lee-Anne Walker came as an interpretive naturalist for the summer in 1983 and never left. Teaching natural history for the local college mountain adventure program, she has worked as an eco tour guide guiding hikes, snowshoe tours, canoe trips and step-on-bus tours. Her enthusiasm and knowledge of Fernie’s natural and human history will inspire a unique sense of place.
Chiara Cipriano was a snowshoe guide for Wild Nature Tours this past winter where she first became passionate about Fernie’s native species and legends. She has a background in Biology and has spent 5 seasons as an environmental educator and 6 summers in a tent, national parks and forests across the United States, designing and maintaining recreational trails for hikers. She is a Wilderness First Responder and enjoys spending her free time exploring new trails and tracking animals.
NB: Map co-ordinates refer to meeting place at the Mt Fernie Provincial Park Overflow Parking Lot.
