British Columbia · Lodge & Resort Marketplace · Since 2016
Fishing lodges, wilderness resorts, guide outfitter properties and RV parks across Northern BC, the Cariboo Chilcotin, Thompson Okanagan, Kootenay Rockies and the Coast. Advertised by owners and licensed agents. Every inquiry goes straight to the seller.
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Northern BCBoat-in$4,900,000 CAD
West Side of Dease Lake, Northwestern BC
What an opportunity for the serious gold prospector or for someone with gold fever looking for a semi-retirement gig. This unique package provides extensive placer claims in one of BC's most gold-rich regions.
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Northern BCDrive-in$2,200,000 CAD
km 403, Highway 37, Iskut, Northwestern BC
Lodge and Campground in Northwestern British Columbia, Canada, for sale on 20 acres deeded land. 15 Rooms are available to rent year round. There is a 30 site campground, serviced with power and water, open from May through October as well as plenty of room for dry camping, with 10 river canoes available for rentals.
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Northern BCDrive-in$1,980,000 CAD
Twelve Mile Road, Hudson's Hope, BC
Williston Lake Resort is a traditionally styled log cabin. It's hand hewn pine logs showcase the wood's natural beauty. It is built from Pioneer Log Homes (TV show, TIMBER KINGS). The Lodge could be considered both a feat of engineering and a work of art.
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Northern BCDrive-inContact Owner
NW Shore of Tatuk Lake, Bulkley-Nechako, BC
Well-designed Resort property that enjoys a favorable location and offers an appropriate array of facilities and amenities. The resort site is improved with: Owner's residence, seven cabins, outbuildings, RV sites and extensive site improvements & docking.
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Northern BCFly-in$375,000 CAD
225 km NW of Mackenzie, Northcentral BC
This remote, fly-in-only retreat in northcentral BC is the escape you didn't know you needed. The moment you touch down, the noise of everyday life fades – replaced by pure peace, quiet, and connection to the wild.
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Start My Listing EmailBC Market Intelligence
British Columbia produces fewer lodge and resort sales each year than Ontario, but no other province offers the same range of product. A coastal saltwater lodge near Port Hardy, an interior lake resort near Kamloops, a guide outfitter camp in the Cassiar and a highway-front campground on Highway 37 are different businesses with different value drivers. Before you compare one BC listing to another, make sure they're the same kind of asset.
The most distinctive BC value driver is the Guide Outfitter Certificate. Issued under the Wildlife Act, it grants the exclusive right to guide paying big game hunters within a defined territory. Territories are finite and new ones are rarely created, so in Stone sheep, mountain goat and trophy moose country a certificate with a well-documented allocation and harvest history can contribute significantly to a property's going-concern value. Its transferability, conditions and compliance history deserve the same scrutiny as the real estate.
Gross revenue multipliers (GRM) on BC lodge and resort sales range from about 2.0× to 6.0×. Coastal saltwater lodges and remote fly-in operations carry floatplane logistics, vessel costs and guide staffing, so their expense ratios run higher and they tend to sit toward the low end: each dollar of gross revenue is worth less to a buyer. Road-accessible and highway-front operations with longer seasons and diversified revenue trade higher. Where a specific property sits depends on its actual revenue and expense structure, not on another seller's asking price.
The qualified buyer pool for BC lodges is narrower than for general commercial real estate. Northern BC guide outfitter and wilderness properties typically attract individuals or families from Alberta or the US Pacific Northwest with real hunting or fishing experience. Coastal lodges draw US Pacific coast buyers familiar with saltwater charter operations. Interior and Kootenay resorts are dominated by BC and Alberta buyers. Expect 12 to 24 months to find the right buyer for a well-priced, viable property. Overpriced properties, especially those whose asking price the income can't support, routinely sit for 36 months or more.
Range of priced BC listings on this page right now, from fly-in wilderness lodges to established Northern BC operations.
BC lodge and resort sales, depending on expense structure, access, tenure and season length.
Most remote BC lodges operate under provincial tenure, so tenure type, security and remaining term are central to value.
Across a Canada-wide sample of 100 lodge and resort sales. Nearly half sold below 87% of asking price.
For accurately priced, viable properties. Overpriced properties routinely take 36 months or more.
BC's Lodge & Resort Regions
Five very different geographies, each with its own resource base, tenure picture and buyer profile.
Northern BC
BC's core guide outfitter and wilderness lodge region, from Dease Lake and Fort Nelson to Hudson's Hope, Smithers and Mackenzie. This is Stone sheep and mountain goat country, and its guiding territories are highly sought after. The Highway 37 (Cassiar) corridor supports drive-in lodges and campgrounds serving hunters, anglers and resource traffic, and the Peace River country draws strong Alberta interest.
Cariboo Chilcotin Coast
The Cariboo plateau is BC's interior lake fishing heartland, with hundreds of rainbow and lake trout lakes supporting family-owned fishing resorts at accessible price points. West through the Chilcotin to Bella Coola, steelhead rivers draw serious fly anglers. Demand is steady from BC and Alberta buyers looking for established operations with documented revenue.
Thompson Okanagan
BC's strongest domestic resort market, with four-season demand from the Lower Mainland and Alberta. The Kamloops rainbow trout has drawn dedicated anglers to this region's lakes for more than a century. Longer operating seasons reduce the seasonal risk that weighs on northern lodge values, and this region has the broadest financing eligibility of any BC lodge market.
Kootenay Rockies
Backcountry lodges, lakefront fishing resorts and multi-season properties anchored by summer fishing and fall hunting. Kootenay Lake holds bull trout and large rainbow trout, and the East Kootenay is some of western Canada's best elk country. Calgary is within driving distance, so the Alberta buyer presence is strong and land values run higher than at remote northern operations.
Vancouver Island & Coast
Canada's Pacific saltwater lodge market. Coastal lodges target chinook, coho, halibut and lingcod through American Plan programs, largely serving US anglers from Washington, Oregon and California, and they produce the province's highest revenue per guest. Park Use Permits and, on Haida Gwaii, Haida Title considerations add tenure complexity found nowhere else in Canada.
BC Due Diligence Essentials
About 94% of British Columbia is Crown land, so most remote BC lodges operate under some form of provincial tenure. These are the instruments you'll run into, and each needs independent legal review before a purchase closes.
The strongest long-term occupancy right available to a commercial lodge in BC. A lease grants exclusive use of a defined area of Crown land for a set term and purpose, and it's the tenure lenders are most comfortable financing against. Review the remaining term, rent review provisions, permitted use and any encumbrances.
Shorter-term and more conditional than a lease, and issued for a specific purpose. Confirm that the lodge's current operations fall within the permitted uses. Older licences don't always anticipate everything a lodge does today, which creates compliance risk.
Required for commercial operations inside a BC provincial park. Permits are issued for a fixed term and renewal is not guaranteed: BC Parks can modify permitted uses or reduce commercial activity based on conservation priorities. Check the permit's renewal history, current conditions and BC Parks' management direction for that park.
Not a land tenure, but a commercial guiding licence granting the exclusive right to guide paying hunters for specified big game within a defined territory. Transfers require provincial approval. Confirm the territory boundaries, species and allocations, annual reporting compliance, and any conditions attached to prior transfers.
Land tenures and guiding rights sit under different legislation and different provincial programs, so they need separate due diligence. On Haida Gwaii, Haida Title considerations add another layer. Use a solicitor with specific BC Crown land and natural resource tenure experience; general real estate practice often doesn't cover these instruments. See the full lodge due diligence checklist →
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