Vancouver Island
Find your next float.
GoFloat is a growing guide to the rivers, tubes, and swimming holes of Vancouver Island: where to put in, where to take out, and what the water is doing today. Pick a river below and go.
Float sites
Live now, with their own conditions and float maps.
Coming soon
Rivers the directory covers, waiting on their own sites.
Cowichan River
Coming soonCowichan Valley
The biggest float on the Island, and the only one with rental shops and shuttles running all summer. Several runs, from the easy Saywell Park drift to the longer canyon stretches.
Englishman River
Coming soonParksville / Errington
A short, warm float through Errington, put in near the resort and drift back down. Falls and swimming holes upstream if the water is too low to float.
Oyster River
Coming soonBlack Creek
A quiet float between Campbell River and the Comox Valley. Gravel bars, swimming holes, and far fewer people than the Puntledge on a hot Saturday.
Nanaimo River
Coming soonCedar / Nanaimo
Deep green pools and gentle current south of Nanaimo. Better known for its swimming holes than for one set-piece tube run, but the current is there.
Sooke River
Coming soonSooke
The closest river float to Victoria: cold water, short drifts, and the potholes upstream when you would rather swim than float.
Each of these gets its own site in time, with put-ins, take-outs, and conditions. Know a river that belongs on the map? Tell us about it.