Tourism Nanaimo Visitor Centre

Gorgeous information centre with very helpful staff. Lots of great brochures and ideas of where to adventure on the Island

A beautiful visitor centre. Friendly and informative ambassador. Outside there is a simple little off-leash park for dogs to stretch their legs. Washrooms accessible from outside, clean.

Good little spot to have a pee break and a picnic on the way up to Englishman River falls I highly recommend it it's an amazing experience as well as Cathedral Grove forest as long as it's open...... I don't know how the hell you close an entire Forest but I was very unsatisfied driving through there to find that all the parking spaces were gated off by 6 ft high aluminum fencing....

The lady at the centre was super nice and helpful, or so I thought. I went in to get the food trail map and asked about the breweries. She handed me the map and even wrote out the breweries and their locations for me - excellent!
But then I went to go to all these places and found out everything on the food trail is closed in Nanaimo Monday-Wednesday, and that would have been nice to know prior to.

Nice little pull out with a fenced off leash dog park and picnic benches. Didn't actually go inside the visitors centre though.