Local Information Saturna Recreation and Cultural Centre Saturna's new multi-purpose Rec Centre, designed and built for a variety of social, corporate, religious, and sports activities, is available for hire. A commercial kitchen, a comfortable lounge and bar for receptions, a gym for sports, a large stage for performances and capacity of 300 will accommodate most any event.

Local Tourism Association - Accommodation and Services This website is Saturna's equivalent to a local chamber of commerce. The website features information on accommodations and business services on Saturna Island.

Local Community Information and the Community Access Program Everything you need to know about the local community, service clubs, volunteer organization, medical services, etc.

Gulf Islands National Park Reserve of Canada Visitor Information. Almost 2/3 of Saturna Island is now protected within the National Reserve.

Local Tide Conditions Saturna Island Weather - 5 Day Forecast - Current Conditions

Located in East Point, overlooking Tumbo Channel and Tumbo Island, near East Point Lighthouse and park, both ideal places to view an abundance of marine wildlife such as Orcas, Sea Lions, Seals, Otters. Enjoy an amazing variety of sea birds including Eagles, Herons, Kingfishers, Oystercatchers as well as a diverse array of wintering waterfowl. Shell Beach is a low bank sandstone beach providing for leisurely walks along the shore and the launching of kayaks.

Saturna Island has a moderate climate and small vibrant resident population. Approximately sixty per cent of the Island's stunning landscape of bays, valleys and high rock bluffs are protected within the recently created Gulf Islands National Park Reserve.

Tourism is important to the livelihood and economic well-being of most of the Gulf Islands. Visitors to Saturna should plan ahead, as there are no campsites on the island and accommodations are limited, so lodging reservations are recommended. Much of the population of Saturna is centered around Lyall Harbour and Boot Cove, and a few homes are scattered throughout the island.

Nearly half of the newly created Gulf Islands National Park incorporates undeveloped wilderness land on Saturna Island. This park will be one of only two national parks in the Vancouver Island and Gulf Islands region - the Pacific Rim National Park being the other.

Gulf Islands National Park Reserve

Almost one half of Saturna’s stunning landscape of bays, valleys and high rock bluffs are protected within Gulf Islands National Park Reserve. Officially established in 2003 the park is indeed something special to experience while you’re on-island. The southern Gulf Islands are one of the most ecologically important—and most at risk—natural areas in southern Canada. Many plant species are at their northern limit or are found nowhere else in Canada—like the magnificently gnarled Garry oaks and the red-barked arbutus trees. Tidal pools shimmer with colourful and extraordinary sea creatures, and a myriad of seabirds, orcas, porpoises, seals and sea lions thrive on the bounty of the surrounding ocean.

Exploring the national park reserve is best done at a leisurely pace, and in ways that leave little trace of your passing through. Although there are few facilities as yet in the new park, there are still some great experiences to enjoy. Try a picnic and short hike at Winter Cove. Enjoy a walk down to Narvaez Bay, or hike along Lyall Creek. Drive up to the top of Mount Warburton Pike to take in a panoramic horizon of ocean and islands laid out at your feet as falcons and eagles soar at eye-level. If you're travelling by boat or kayak, a stop at the stone house ruins at Taylor Point will stir echoes of an old quarry operation that once supplied the sandstone that graces some of Victoria's earliest grand edifices.

To the north of Saturna lie Tumbo and Cabbage Islands, Pine Islet, and the Belle Chain Islets—also part of the national park reserve. The entire park totals 35 km2 of park land scattered over numerous islands, islets and reefs throughout the southern Gulf Islands, including major portions of North and South Pender Islands. The waters adjacent to park lands are also managed by Parks Canada, bringing another 26 km2 under protection.

The opportunity to own a home or building site on this property is a rare occurrence and once acquired provides a degree of privacy, security, and certainty (with respect to both adjacent sites and adjacent properties) that is increasingly difficult to achieve elsewhere, particularly in such beautiful surroundings.

Old Point Farm is at the westernmost end of Saturna Island. Except for a narrow strip of land it is entirely surrounded by water.

Its three Kilometers (two miles) of high bluff and low bank shoreline overlook Plumper Sound, Navy Channel, Mayne and the Pender Islands, and the entrance to Lyall Harbour and Boot Cove on Saturna Island.

Old Point Farm is close to the ferry terminal, general store, pub, newly constructed Island recreational and cultural center, artists' galleries, and award winning vineyard. It is private from all its neighbors and has a single access from the public road.

In addition to privacy, the terrain of Old Point Farm's 268 acres provides magnificent views and vistas from every site. High and low bank waterfront with Fir, Arbutus, and Garry Oak, a forested interior portion, several large open fields cleared in the early 1900's, and an extensive network of walking trails. In addition to the many birds on Saturna Island, there is a small resident deer population, bald eagle nests, otters seals and of course salmon.

The present owners, many of whom have been involved with Old Point Farm since its inception in the early 1980’s, are a diverse group, both active and retired, and include recreational and residential owners.

This form of land ownership and management originally established by Old Point Farm’s founders more that 20 years ago and recently improved provides many advantages of freehold ownership, including site ownership, while retaining full control over access, privacy, and land use by the owners. Those are qualities increasingly sought after and much more difficult to establish and sustain under subdivision rules and individual freehold site ownership.