Adventure travelers are growing up. Once the type to pack all our "stuff" in a Volkswagen van and tour Europe, we are now in our middle age and while the sense of adventure still draws us, we want luxury perquisites, too. Where better that Canada, a land of vast open spaces and great culture to answer to both of our needs. A new generation of adventure spas has emerged, calling to our need for complete escape and to be pampered. Across Canada, resorts and spas are springing up that offer fine dining, luxury accommodations and complete spa facilities in tandem with outdoor experience activities like fishing, hiking, sailing and even heli-skiing.
The Clayoquot Wilderness Resort on Clayoquot Sound in stunning Tofino, British Columbia offers guests 20 luxury white canvas tents as their mode of accommodations. Even the dining lounge is in a tent; the cookhouse is a log building. Located within the Biosphere Reserve (UNESCO-designated), the resort offers guided or unguided fishing tours, and packing services to ship your catch back home. Wood-fired cedar hot-tubs and saunas, and tents that house massage facilities make this resort a place to relax after a day of nature-inspired discoveries. Don't miss the invigorating outdoor showers and the seawater baths.
Traveling eastward into Manitoba, one of Canada's west/central provinces, you'll find North Knife Lake Lodge 1100 kilometers/700 miles north of the province's major city, Winnipeg and near Churchill, situated on Hudson Bay. A lodge and spa that is so remote travelers must fly in, it was built by its founders as a lodge some 30 years ago. Guided nature tours are available, or you can explore the wilderness on your own from the main lodge or its outpost. A run into Churchill offers the opportunity to shop or watch beluga whales and polar bears in their natural habitat. Spa facilities at North Knife Lake Lodge include a full range of spa treatments, massage and even cooking classes.
Two hours north of Toronto, Canada's largest city, in the province of Ontario is an area dotted with lakes knows as "The Kawarthas", and in that picturesque locale is the Burleigh Island Lodge & Spa. A main building plus cottages gives travelers a choice of accommodations, and the choice of activities is vast, from fishing from a boat (supplied) on Stoney Lake to body wraps and aroma therapy in the spa. Wind the day out in the on-site restaurant.
With wilderness and adventure resorts "growing up" to meet our needs, we can enjoy the thrills of outdoor activities and the serenity of the spa in one location.
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