Why ROAM in Canada?
Canada's coastline is the longest in the world, and this humble
nation of 34 million people is the second largest country in the world
by landmass, smaller in size only to Russia. With more than 3.6-million
square miles of landmass, and 151,485 miles of coastline, where, and
how, does one begin a Canada adventure?
ROAM offers the most unique vacations with activities ranging from whitewater rafting, sea
kayaking and whale watching to heli-hiking and multi-sport activities. As locals, we offer our travelers well-planned expeditions with unprecedented access to pristine wilderness environments and to places
no other adventure companies dare to venture.
ROAM has orchestrated first descents down some of Canada's most untamed
rivers, and we have also brewed up some peerless bravado on the luxury front. Some of our journeys through the heartlands of Western Canada are padded with pampering. Think five-star lodges, hot springs,
naturalist-led wildlife tours, elegant meals with all the amenities and you won't be dissappointed.
Our itineraries
veer from the norm, and include adventures that offer kayaking with
Orcas, heli-hiking and world-class fishing on our Kootenay Rockies,
Johnstone Strait and Chilko Multi-Sport vacations.
ROAM's Canadian adventures are all but out-of-this-world, with wild whitewater
well into the early fall, and geography that includes everything from
10,000-foot peaks to monstrous old growth forest to icebergs and
salt-water fjords—all in the same expedition.
More than 70 percent of our guests have trusted us to take them to exotic locations worldwide more than once and another 25 percent come form referral. No
matter where in the world we operate, we use top-notch, well-maintained
equipment. Our experienced, well-rounded guides are personable and
approachable, and of course, our Canadian guides are exceptionally
polite, except when it comes to hockey.
Adventure Travel in Canada
Join ROAM for a rafting, sea kayaking or multi-sport adventure in Western Canada where the wild and ancient frontiers unfold
Do you dream of paddling your way through moose, eagle, orca or
grizzly habitat? Would you like to soar over Canada’s glaciated Coast
Range for a bird’s eye view of the wilderness? Are you interested in
rafting the longest stretches of commercially navigable Class IV
whitewater in North America? Do you dream of fly fishing in crystal
clear creeks with the promise of fat, feisty rainbow trout, bull trout
and dolly varden? Do you like to play hard, but appreciate the finer
things in life?
The rivers and coastlines of British Columbia, Alberta
and the Yukon, and the landscapes that envelop them, literally dwarf
famous waters elsewhere in North America. They offer ultra-diverse
beauty and wildlife in breadths seen in few other parts of the world.
From headwaters that often flow with ice-pack, some of these rivers
pass beneath giant glass-blue glaciers, along horizons of endless
temperate rainforest and storied high country desert, while others
tumble into bays looming with icebergs. The legendary coastline teems
with wildlife, one of the most dependable areas in the world for
observing and paddling with the powerful but gentle orcas.
Canada’s
beauty unfolds in breathtaking journeys to the wild and ancient
frontiers of North America. In the universe of ROAM outposts, this
northern-most constellation is peerless. The Canadian National anthem
boasts "true north strong and free." So too are their waterways and the
epic escapes that define ROAM's adventures.
ROAM offers unique itineraries in Canada including: Rafting on the Chilko-Chilcotin-Fraser Rivers; Firth River Rafting; Klinaklini River Rafting; Sea Kayaking on Johnstone Strait; as well as four multi-sport vacations including one week exploring British Columbia’s pristine river, ocean and mountain environments on our Bears & Whales itinerary; Chilko-Taseko Multi-Sport; Kootenay Rockies Multi-Sport and our ever-popular five-day multi-sport adventure at the Lodge at Chilko Lake.
Unique
to our Canadian line-up is our lodge-based British Columbia sea
kayaking adventure. Located northeast of Vancouver Island, Johnstone
Strait is internationally recognized as the best location to see orca
whales in the wild. Nearly 300 orcas (a.k.a. killer whales) congregate
here each summer between June and September.
The Yukon’s Firth
River, dubbed “the Serengeti of the North,” offers rugged expanses of
tundra, sheer canyon walls hundreds of feet high and unique access to
the summer aggregation grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd. On this
wild and remote Arctic river, we may encounter wildlife including
muskox, caribou, wolves, eagles and falcons in a pristine wilderness,
as well as beautiful and sublime Arctic plant life. Upon our arrival at
the Beaufort Sea, we may spot floating icebergs, seals and beluga
whales.
Up in the North Country, amenities are of the highest ROAM standards, in wilderness of the grandest scale.