Beaver Cove

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Terminus of the Englewood Railway, a private railway owned by Western Forest Products and is the last logging railway in existence in North America.

To move its logs to Beaver Cove, the Englewood Division utilizes a combination of rail and truck transportation. In the woods, logs are loaded onto logging trucks for transport down the steep hillsides to the valley bottom where the railway line is located. There are four collection points or reloads, along the railway line: Vernon, Maquilla, Woss, and Camp A. Trucks take the logs to the closest reload site, where they are off-loaded, weighed for volume, and reloaded onto rail cars. The distance from end of track at Maquilla to Beaver Cove is 122 km (76 miles).

At Beaver Cove, the logs are unloaded, sorted, bundled then dumped into the water, where they are either made up into log booms or loaded onto self-dumping log barges for towing to mills in Georgia Strait region. Beaver Cove also operates a chipping and hogging facility where low grade logs are chipped for pulp chips or hog fuel.

The whole operation can be observed from a viewpoint on the road to Telegraph Cove. Picnic tables and interpretive signs are available.