Nimmo Bay Resort, Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada, USA & Canada

Nimmo Bay is the kind of West Coast lodge that quietly sits in a league of its own. Family-owned and run by the Murray family since 1980, it was born from a desire to bring family life closer to the land. Founders Craig and Deborah Murray traded time apart in the logging industry for a float home towed into this wilderness, and today Nimmo is lovingly stewarded by their son and his wife, Fraser and Becky Murray, who live here with their two daughters during the operating season. That family presence runs through everything and gives the lodge its unmistakable heart. Set in the southern Great Bear Rainforest, one of the world’s largest coastal temperate rainforests, Nimmo Bay feels utterly remote, yet you can be here from Vancouver in under 2 hours. Arrivals are on Mondays and Thursdays and the journey is a one-hour charter flight from Vancouver followed by a scenic 20-minute floatplane landing at the lodge dock. Private floatplanes can also be arranged from Vancouver, Victoria or Tofino. Part floating and part on land, with a waterfall cascading through its centre, Nimmo Bay is small but mighty. An intimate lodge with a vast backyard, where every stay is exclusively tailored to each guest.