The Sayward Forest Canoe Route is situated within the Sayward Provincial Forest. The area's undulating topography is largely covered with immature second-growth timber, and with numerous lakes and creeks.

The B.C. Forest Service has constructed a number of portage trails which join a series of lakes to form a canoe route. There is 7.3km of trails connecting lakes in a circular route.

Access to the circuit can be obtained from Highway 28(Gold River) via the Camp 5 Road or from Highway 19(North Island Highway) via Weyerhaueser's Menzies logging road. For your safety, use extreme caution, obey all warning signs and give industrial traffic the right-of-way. Use your headlights at all times and park well off the travelled surface.

Although most of the lakes within this route remain ice-free for most of the year, the preferred time to do the route would be summer or early fall.

The recommended direction to circumnavigate the route is counter-clockwise commencing at any one of the numerous available starting points. The excellent road access to most of the lakes within the route also allows the route to be canoed as a whole or in part. The entire route requires approximately 3 - 4 days to complete and covers approximately 50 kilometers.

Orange markers and portage signs located along the route indicate portage trail locations.
Don't forget your life jacket!