Animals and farms

Group visit for community and daycare groups

North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre8 hr 11 min by bus · 120.5 km

✓ Fits your group

A black bear lying along the top of a wide cut tree stump inside a wire mesh enclosure, with green leaves behind it.

Cost

Price not published

Needs confirmation

Admission fees are waived for a support person/aide(s) accompanying a person(s) with special needs; however, this support person(s) does not count in the requested ratios.

Ages & size

Ages not published

Up to 45 children

Duration

Length not published

Year round

Days not published

Book by

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Plan this trip

Fieldy handles all communication and booking for you.

What it actually looks like

Photos from North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre's website

Our note

This is the form to use if you are a daycare rather than a school. Fifteen is the smallest group they will take, so a small room may need to join up with another. One adult per five children under 13 is the rule, and the adults are charged admission as well.

What the children do

Groups that are not schools, including daycares, organisations and teams, use a separate group visit form. It asks for the ages of the visiting children and offers the same choice of a volunteer guided tour of about 60 to 75 minutes or a self guided visit at your own pace. Groups are 15 to 45 people, one adult is needed for every 5 children aged 12 and under, and requests are processed on Mondays and Tuesdays. The centre asks that a large group does not go into the gift shop all at once because the space is limited. What a group pays is not published: the group tour coordinator sends a payment schedule after the request goes in, and payment is taken on arrival.

Walk the gravelled paths between the enclosures to look at eagles, owls, bears and turtles, either behind a volunteer guide or on their own with the map, then eat at the picnic tables afterwards.

Good to know

Gravelled paths that take a wheelchair, washrooms with a change table in the Eagle Flight Enclosure building, picnic tables for lunch and free parking with room for a bus. Rain cover and how long a self guided visit takes are not stated.

Sources disagree. Their own two pages print admission slightly differently. The home page says $15 for an adult and $6 for a child aged 4 to 16 with tax on top, and the visit page shows the same figures with nothing said about tax. The numbers agree, so budget for tax being added and check the total when you pay.

Washrooms

Washrooms are wheelchair accessible and have one baby changing station. They are located in the Eagle Flight Enclosure building.

Lunch space

Picnic areas with tables and benches are scattered around the grounds. Picnic tables are available for use after your tour for snack and/or lunch time.

Rain backup

Needs confirmation

Strollers

Needs confirmation

Wheelchair access

Our paths are graveled and wheelchair accessible. Two wheelchairs are available for visitor use at no charge.

Bus parking

Bus parking is available (a parking map will be provided). Parking is free, and reserved spots for the disabled are in the main lot near the entrance.

Nearby park

Needs confirmation

Restrictions

Cell phones are for photo use only. Please turn off flash and put phones in 'silent' mode while on-site. Any behaviour (such as running, yelling, rough-housing or playing tag) that frightens, causes stress or endangers the safety of our animals is unacceptable. Students must always stay with chaperones. Please note that free passes and Annual Memberships are not valid for booked tours. Please dress for the weather and be prepared to walk during the tour of the facility

Getting there

1240 Leffler Road, Box 364, Errington, BC V0R 1V0

On foot

26 hr 12 min

too far with this group

By bus

8 hr 11 min

includes a 9 min wait

Driving

3 hr 50 min

The dark pin is Victoria.

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Details checked on 2026-09-10 against the venue’s own pages. Something wrong? , it takes one tap. · Venue page · 250-248-8534 ext 3