The Five Rings Trail is an integrated Hut-to-Hut (Cabin-to-Cabin) destination trail network which links the Similkameen and Boundary areas, with the Okanagan, Shuswap, Thompson, Monashee and ending in the Columbia Region near Revelstoke. Each region has within it a ring of trails.
The five branded trail rings would be laid out as a series of "interconnected curls" so that many types of excursions and activities could be anywhere from two days to two weeks in length.
Our goal is to challenge travelers to collect each trail ring. Rarely would a traveler dare to embark to complete the entire trail network, which could eventually have upwards of 40 cabins plus Trailhead accommodation.
Most would return time and again to experience another unique part of the Five Rings Trail Network.
The trail network would also include Okanagan and Shuswap Lakes with a series of Lake and River Route Cabins accessible by water only.
The ultimate adventure in British Columbia, Canada, five wilderness trail loops or rings, interconnected within a Destination Trail Network.
The Five Rings Trail would be utilized by small group travel, which would be self-propelled and would be professionally guided.
The trail network would seek to incorporate other commercial interests and tenures in order to maximize opportunities for businesses and communities seeking to build nature-based travel strategies.
The Five Rings Trail network contains many existing trails, which can be linked together and branded as a world-class nature-based attraction where visitors can explore British Columbia's Southern Interior
You can enter your name into this Guestbook and receive our newsletter for updates. You can also access our Five Rings Directory and find out if there's presently a Ring Initiative in your community. Perhaps you would like to start one!
Pick up a copy of the Backroad Mapbook for the Thompson Okanagan. A quality publication with detailed trails and backroads. Available at bookstores everywhere.
About
Bearfoot Canada
Bearfoot Canada provides natural resource development services to communities, economic development corporations, visitor and convention bureaus, chambers of commerce, and tourism offices, with the goal of helping people, businesses, and local communities function optimally as they use their natural resources as tools for robust sustainable economic growth.
Bearfoot Canada creates dynamic and effective marketing products, web sites, marketing plans, and trails that help develop natural resources as sustainable revenue-producing assets in keeping with healthy eco-systems.
The Five Rings Trail is a vision in which communities in the southern interior can enhance their efforts to build economic development strategies which considers wilderness access for everyone, safe trails and nature-based tourism as valuable assets that can be linked to neighboring communities.
By working together as a network of communities this effort will build a world-class destination that will benefit rural communities, local business and residents.
