Smelt Bay Provincial Park

Deserted beautiful beach where you can walk for miles. Truly a one of a kind West coast gem situated on beautiful Cortes Island.

Beautiful, quiet and convenient for a fair price! Added bonus of extremely good cell service and overflow camping right next to the beach. Park attendants were extremely nice and laid back, will be coming back next year 👍

One of the nicest campsites I've been to. Private, out of the way but still easily car accessible (no 4x4 required). Staff were friendly, too.
An easy walk to the beach with great views and sandy spots to rest.
Water said to boil it, but washrooms (outhouses) were clean.

As other reviewers mentioned, some of the sites had average privacy between neighbouring sites. They did plant ferns and shrubs and they're starting to grow in, and soon the sites will be very nicely private, but they are by no means bad right now.

Smelt Bay is very picturesque; the water here is beautiful, calm and incredibly inviting. I could spend all day in the water and looking around the Bay area. I would definitely recommend it for camping or even a day visit.

This is now one of my favorite places on earth for sure. It's comparable to the paradise beaches I've seen in Mexico, it's something out of this world. So so so peaceful. Ranger Tim is really kind too. The bathrooms are super clean, lots of flies tho but hard to keep em out, the camping sites are so nice, space for two tents, maybe three, fireplace and a table. Also you can pick blackberries really close from there. Read the story of the black/orange bench, so sad :(