Routes
Four days or one night, planned around the gaps.
Every route here was written for the electric vans first: how much charge you arrive with, where the last reliable charger is, which campground sells out on a Tuesday, and what needs a permit before it needs a packed lunch. Take one of the big two and the range stops become suggestions — the permits, the sites and the height limits do not.
- 3 routes
- May – October
- Charge stops listed per route
- Written for the electric three
Cove & Current · North Vancouver, British Columbia · May – October
Porteau Cove & Cates Bay
The one-night test. Fifty minutes of highway, then oceanfront sites where the tide comes up to your door and the only noise is water.
2 charge stops noted · arrive with 45%
Sea-to-Sky, Duffey Lake & Joffre
The Highway 99 climb, the tree wall at Callaghan, then the long gravel shoulder of Duffey Lake. Two nights, one hard hike, one very good dinner.
4 charge stops noted · arrive with 60%
Sunshine Coast & Desolation Sound
Two ferries, one tide-dependent marine park, and the slowest four days available within a day's drive of the North Shore.
4 charge stops noted · arrive with 85%
Book the site first
In this region the campground is the constraint, not the van. Porteau and Joffre day-use passes go in seconds on long weekends. Get the site, then message us the dates and we will hold the van against them.
Verify chargers the week you go
Networks list chargers that are offline, reserved or quietly downgraded. Every stop on our route pages is written from our own drives and re-checked on PlugShare before you collect — dates on the route pages show when.
We do not sell park EV charging
Most BC campgrounds have no hookups, and the ones with them are not why you came. You arrive charged, you sleep on 12 V, you leave with 70%. In a Sprinter you arrive with a full tank and the same rule applies in reverse: no hookups, no shore power, nothing to plug into.